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 here goes one to someone who isn't an MP. voice-verified

I'm not sure what the second and third and fourth and fifth questions are about that, but let me try. voice-verified

And there was the two, just whilst we're running with this particular theme, Stephen Flynn and Stephen Gethins, the two former SNP MPs who won seats at Holyrood in May, therefore triggering protests. voice-verified

to Westminster by-elections because they couldn't sit in both parliaments at the same time. voice-verified

That was utterly unintelligible, wasn't it? voice-verified

But Henry's going to make it intelligible. voice-verified

Yeah, and that juxtaposition is clearly unfortunate in a dreadful, dreadful case. voice-verified

And it prompted the broadcasting of that clip to make clear, as Henry was saying there, that the cameras were invited in to film that cup of tea and coffee that cabinet ministers were having prior to their first meeting of the cabinet under Andy Burnham. voice-verified

So it wasn't like it was leaked or surreptitiously recorded. voice-verified

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politicians there knew that the cameras were there. voice-verified

But we did get apologies from West Streeting and Shabana Mahmood, Defence and Home Secretaries, respectively, posted on social media talking about there being no ill intent, but recognising the very, very serious issues being talked about. voice-verified

I think, as I say, clearly the juxtaposition is unfortunate. voice-verified

I think in the interest of proportionality, voice-verified

it's worth reflecting that everyone tends to say much, you know, approach conversations in a tone and tenor rather differently when you're chatting informally than you might when you're in some sort of formal kind of presentation. voice-verified

I suspect that kind of happens in every workplace and every kind of corner of life, really. voice-verified

But yeah, you know, the apology is perhaps inevitable, particularly given that context. voice-verified

And that's the fascinating thing, isn't it? voice-verified

To what extent did Team Burnham conclude that this sort of thought, if you like, over the last three or four days was a mistake and that they were ill-disciplined and they shouldn't have done it? voice-verified

Or... voice-verified

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