👤 Chris Mason

23 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
23
2026-09-05 – 2026-11-04
Claims per article
28
642 extracted in total
Hedged claims
9%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,160
characters · 10 tagged analysis
Writes for BBC News.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Politics
96%
Sports
4%
Most-tagged topics
LabourBBCBritishConservativeReformDowning Streetthe European Unionthe United Nations

Leaning

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6 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.17 (centre).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-30 · BBC News · Politics
UK believes Iran involved in RAF Fairford incident, PM says
29 outlets covered this event
2026-11-03 · BBC News · Politics
PM plans debt re-set for Commonwealth nations as slavery apology talks begin
20 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

What they said would happen

2026-09-05 · BBC News
Chris Mason: Reform UK winded by donations row as insiders call for shift in approach
🔮 - 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
UK to provide Saudi Arabia with 'defensive' military support, says Burnham
🔮 - 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
Manchester to host world leaders at G20 summit in 2027
🔮 - Published World leaders, including Donald Trump, will head to Manchester next year for the G20 leaders' summit. assertive
2026-09-22 · BBC News
Burnham expects to find 'common ground' with Trump in first meeting
🔮 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
Trump says he can do business with Burnham but criticises 'terrible' Chagos deal
🔮 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
Chris Mason: In the room with the president and the prime minister
🔮 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
Chris Mason: Burnham opens debate on huge issue of social care reform
🔮 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
Chris Mason: Burnham delivers deeply political speech with a personal core
🔮 The funeral will take place in a few days' time. assertive
2026-09-30 · BBC News
UK believes Iran involved in RAF Fairford incident, PM says
🔮 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
Why Andy Burnham's about-turn on Manchester City matters
🔮 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
I'd rather have another election than do a deal with Reform UK, says Badenoch
🔮 - 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
Chris Mason: Tories united behind Badenoch - but party still needs to win over voters
🔮 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
Polanski faces greatest crisis of his leadership so far
🔮 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
Rejecting closer EU ties would be dereliction of duty, PM to say
🔮 - 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
Why the prime minister wants to talk about Brexit again
🔮 And that, you will remember, was merely the start, as years of wrangling began. assertive
2026-10-14 · BBC News
Chris Mason: Lib Dems rally behind Davey as he pledges change
🔮 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
Reform faces criticism after councillors filmed making racist comments
🔮 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
Chris Mason: Burnham and Swinney tussle over where power lies in Scotland
🔮 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
Chris Mason: Jackdaw approved but tricky energy trade-offs remain
🔮 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
2026-10-27 · BBC News
Chris Mason: Budget needs to go some way towards delivering PM's promises
🔮 Let's be clear, plenty in Westminster in all parties will say that the amount of money around isn't everything – how well taxpayers' money is spent and where it is spent matters too. assertive
2026-10-28 · BBC News
Chris Mason: Budget felt cautious despite its range of small measures
🔮 - Published This was a Budget I would describe as a flotilla of small measures. mixed
2026-11-03 · BBC News
PM plans debt re-set for Commonwealth nations as slavery apology talks begin
🔮 - Published The prime minister will join the King at the formal opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Antigua later - and begin talks with fellow leaders about the UK issuing a formal apology for the slave trade in the next year. assertive
2026-11-04 · BBC News
Miliband says slavery apology will not bring costs for UK taxpayer
🔮 - Published Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has insisted the government's willingness to consider formally apologising for the UK's role in the transatlantic slave trade will not lead to higher costs for the British taxpayer. assertive
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