Chris Mason

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5,432 appearances 51 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard yesterday

Chris Mason’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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

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

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

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