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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 51 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 13.

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

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

Oh, so this wouldn't be a timeshare arrangement? voice-verified

No, because not least because you now cannot sit in both parliaments at the same time. voice-verified

So on accepting a seat in the House of Lords or a seat in Westminster, he would be disqualified from his seat at Holyrood. voice-verified

It doesn't mean, curiously, that there would be a by-election for his seat because he was elected on the regional list and so it would be the next Labour candidate on. voice-verified

on the list in his region who would take that seat. voice-verified

We saw a similar thing play out after the Westminster by-election in Aberdeen South, which was won by the Conservatives and then had a knock-on as a result of that. voice-verified

But I think it is, I mean, it's interesting nonetheless. voice-verified

It's interesting in terms of how it goes down with Scottish Labour MPs, some of them none too pleased that, you know, there is a finite number of ministerial jobs available. voice-verified

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