👤 Chris Mason

2026-09-30 · BBC News · Politics

UK believes Iran involved in RAF Fairford incident, PM says

29 outlets covered this event

2026-10-01 · BBC News · Sports

Why Andy Burnham's about-turn on Manchester City matters

15 outlets covered this event

2026-09-23 · BBC News · Politics

Chris Mason: In the room with the president and the prime minister

12 outlets covered this event

2026-09-22 · BBC News · Politics

Trump says he can do business with Burnham but criticises 'terrible' Chagos deal

12 outlets covered this event

2026-09-22 · BBC News · Politics

Burnham expects to find 'common ground' with Trump in first meeting

12 outlets covered this event

2026-09-21 · BBC News · Politics

UK to provide Saudi Arabia with 'defensive' military support, says Burnham

10 outlets covered this event

2026-09-05 · BBC News

🔮 - Published "It makes us look a bit like a pirate ship," a senior Reform figure acknowledges privately, deeply frustrated that after a year in which they say the party has "radically professionalised" the events of the last few days could still happen. assertive

2026-09-21 · BBC News

🔮 - Published Andy Burnham has said the UK will provide "defensive air-to-air refuelling" support for Saudi Arabia, in response to attacks the country has faced from the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen. assertive

2026-09-21 · BBC News

🔮 - Published World leaders, including Donald Trump, will head to Manchester next year for the G20 leaders' summit. assertive

2026-09-22 · BBC News

🔮 So, I will go with where I feel it's right, to meet him where he is at, and search for that common ground, which I'm sure we'll find," the prime minister told reporters on his flight to the US, adding "I'm looking forward to it." assertive

2026-09-22 · BBC News

🔮 Burnham, asked by broadcasters if the deal is "dead", later said the UK will "work hard" to find a resolution between the different sides and he is "confident we can find it working with our US partners". assertive

2026-09-23 · BBC News

🔮 Prime Minister Andy Burnham, a mayor a matter of months ago, sat next to the most powerful man in the world. assertive

2026-09-29 · BBC News

🔮 The pitch from Andy Burnham is that "hope comes from honesty," there needs to be "less drift and more direction" and there needs to be a willingness to say "the things politicians usually avoid." assertive

2026-09-29 · BBC News

🔮 The funeral will take place in a few days' time. assertive

2026-09-30 · BBC News

🔮 Speaking at the White House on Monday, Trump said: "I will tell you, I would have said, 'don't let them have bail'. assertive

2026-10-01 · BBC News

🔮 The man who was the mayor of Greater Manchester a matter of months ago is now the prime minister, and so finds himself caught up in it all at a local level, a national level and a diplomatic level. assertive

2026-10-06 · BBC News

🔮 - Published Kemi Badenoch has said she would rather have another general election than do a deal with Reform UK to secure power, if no party wins the next election. assertive

2026-10-07 · BBC News

🔮 Reform UK, for instance, claim it is a "tax cut for multi-millionaires" and that their plan to cut income tax for millions by raising the threshold at which most people start paying it will benefit far more people. assertive

2026-10-09 · BBC News

🔮 She arrived in the UK as a child refugee from Somalia in the 1990s, grew up locally in Camden, became a councillor four years ago, the council leader in May and is now Sir Keir Starmer's successor as the MP. assertive

2026-10-12 · BBC News

🔮 - Published The prime minister is expected to tell the Commons later it would be a "dereliction of duty" to turn down a closer relationship with the European Union - if one can be negotiated with Brussels. assertive

2026-10-13 · BBC News

🔮 And that, you will remember, was merely the start, as years of wrangling began. assertive

2026-10-14 · BBC News

🔮 Neither Charlie Maynard, a former Treasury spokesman and Alison Bennett, a former care and carers spokeswoman, have been publicly explicit about the reasons for their departures and both sought to express their concerns to Sir Ed privately and discreetly. assertive

2026-10-14 · BBC News

🔮 In the film, Undercover: A Year in Reform,, external a Reform councillor and deputy mayor of Solihull is recorded calling Asian homeowners "parasites". assertive

2026-10-16 · BBC News

🔮 The SNP is buoyant, its activists gathering for the first time since it won, in May, a fifth consecutive Scottish Parliament election, albeit with fewer seats than they won in 2021. assertive

2026-10-21 · BBC News

🔮 In fact it felt near inevitable after President Trump blurted out – after his first phone call with Burnham in the summer – that the prime minister had told him he would "open up the North Sea". assertive