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

Does it become more of the strategy that he's willing to sort of talk openly about the concerns that he hears whilst not necessarily being able to at least instantly address them? voice-verified

And the curiosity with this was... voice-verified

This was an eve of becoming a prime minister interview packed with colour and a kind of sense of Andy Burnham, the man, et cetera, et cetera, on the eve of the sort of biggest week of his professional life. voice-verified

And the interview would have been perfectly readable without this detail. voice-verified

And then it appears on a specific idea, albeit the... voice-verified

The specifics within the specific were still vague in terms of what he would do. voice-verified

Then on Monday, when he invited the prime minister, a few of us into the Downing Street Garden for a couple of questions from journalists, he sort of half walked back from it while still sort of saying he was keen on it, talking about how difficult it would be, followed by where we were by... voice-verified

last night and then to this morning on camera, him saying that there's no commitment. voice-verified

So, yeah, it's just really interesting. voice-verified

Does he carry on doing this or does he rein it in? voice-verified

Yeah, absolutely. voice-verified

He was trying to reframe how he was perceived, wasn't he? voice-verified

I'm just reading the quote here. voice-verified

They're just characterising me as a tax raiser, he sighed. voice-verified

Well, again, it's never that simplistic, is it? voice-verified

Now, I suppose in his defence, he then had his idea about the VAT cut, which is a tax voice-verified

which is a tax cut and is happening as opposed to this personal allowance idea that was kind of floated and then it floated out to sea and then floated back to harbour. voice-verified

So, yeah, it's just interesting, isn't it? voice-verified

that the last two prime ministers were in all of their public utterances, Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak, to the point sometimes where you came away, or certainly I did, having interviewed both of them many times, wondering what you had and sometimes realising there wasn't a vast amount. voice-verified

Yeah, does Andy Burnham think that there is a merit in speaking, leaning into these things that he hears, whether it's on Question Time or anywhere else? voice-verified

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