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

And here we are as we record it just before 3 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, and it has still not happened. voice-verified

There are indeed some other ministerial appointments in the lower ranks of government that are still to be either filled or confirmed that the incumbents are maintaining their positions. voice-verified

maintaining their roles. voice-verified

But yeah, quite a thing, I think, you know, giving Anas Sarwar a job in government, given how pivotal a figure, frankly, he was in what turned out to be the last six months of Keir Starmer's premiership with that voice-verified

announcement that he made back in February saying that he thought Keir Starmer should resign, that he was dragging Scottish Labour backwards ahead of the devolved elections in May. voice-verified

So that was undeniably a staging post in the demise of Keir Starmer. voice-verified

And it could, on that day, it looked like it for about an hour. voice-verified

It could have been the point that brought him down. voice-verified

Indeed so, and was happy to acknowledge on that very day of her keenness for Andy Burnham to have a bright political future. voice-verified

So, yeah, look, these things are there and are very visible. voice-verified

It is also true to say that a decent number of ministers have been cut and paste, if you like, from their previous jobs in the Starmer government into the same job under Andy Burnham. voice-verified

That's unquestionably true. voice-verified

And then, of course, you know, we should see all of this that we're talking about now in the same context as the voice-verified

conversation of 24 hours ago relating to Darren Jones, the former Chief Secretary to the now previous Prime Minister and indeed a former Chief Secretary to the Treasury and that rather arch post on X talking about the funding or as he saw it, the lack of clear funding for the VAT cut on domestic electricity bills. voice-verified

To what extent do we see voice-verified

of the hurts, the pain from some of those within the Labour Party who have found the last couple of days, weeks, months really, really hard, bubbling out, both in short order, but then in the months ahead as well. voice-verified

Henry, what would be your specialist subject? voice-verified

And it is always the case, it's an arithmetic reality that the dispossessed and never possessed add up to a greater total than the given a job crowd. voice-verified

So, you know, that's just the reality of it. voice-verified

Yeah, I think the expectation is that there would be a contest to find a new Scottish Labour leader once. voice-verified

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