Chris Mason

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5,320 appearances 50 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 5d ago

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Newscast · Is Andy Burnham Rewarding Starmer’s Challengers? · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

It's England and it is for the calendar year starting next year. voice-verified

So for 2027. voice-verified

And here is Andy Burnham picking up and running with something that he was proud of doing in Greenwich. voice-verified

Greater Manchester, he's talked frequently about how much he loves buses. voice-verified

I think it's, as Henry was saying, emphasising that kind of central message of his week around the cost of living. voice-verified

And then it's kind of part of Brand Burnham, isn't it, I think, that heavy association he has with business. voice-verified

Buses in particular, because what he did with the B network, as it's called, in Greater Manchester, I think he pointedly chose to head west rather than north from London for the launch of this policy, heading to Bath. voice-verified

to stand in front of a bus that had had its livery put in place with a big £2 coin and talking about the £2 fare. voice-verified

And yeah, this is the attempt after yesterday to try and hammer home a message of really leaning into the whole cost of living argument and trying to make an argument that they're trying to make something of a contribution to doing something about it. voice-verified

Yeah, I suppose there's two elements, two doses of this you could pick out of the last 24 hours. voice-verified

Indeed that, so running with a devolved idea, if you like, and scaling it up. voice-verified

And Andy Burnham in one of his social media videos talks about his pride in doing exactly that. voice-verified

And this is a slight tangent from buses in England to a Labour leader in Scotland saying, voice-verified

Anas Sarwar, the leader of Scottish Labour, due to be made a peer, so put into the House of Lords and become a minister in the Westminster government, which I note that one or two wags have observed as a curious twist on a commitment to devolution, which is to take a prominent leader from the devolved architecture, if you like, of British politics and put them in the Westminster Parliament. voice-verified

So, yeah, there was wind of it flying around on Tuesday night. voice-verified

Was it Tuesday night? voice-verified

Yeah, Tuesday night. voice-verified

And the expectation at the time, I was told, certainly by folk north of the border, that there would be official confirmation before the evening was out. voice-verified

Before the 10 o'clock news was on, I did a little bit of chasing to be told from folk rather geographically closer to where I am that it wasn't coming last night. voice-verified

They weren't disputing that it's going to happen, but it wasn't coming last night. voice-verified

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