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Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

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Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

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4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Shannon joins as the team discuss Reform’s calamitous start in their new councils, the rain on Donald Trump’s parade, and enjoy a quiz all about politicians’ outside earnings.

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0:00.0

Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.

0:03.3

Hello and welcome to another episode of Page 94.

0:06.1

My name is Andrew Hunter-Murray, and I'm here in the Private Eye office with Helen Lewis, Adam McQueen and Sarah Shannon.

0:11.2

We are going to be talking about all sorts of things in this episode.

0:14.2

We've got three cracking subjects lined up.

0:16.1

Later on, we're going to be having a quiz.

0:18.3

We're going to be...

0:19.1

It's summer. Why not? We're also going to be having a quiz. We're going to be... It's summer, why not?

0:21.7

We're also going to be having a chat about America, which apparently has an army and is very excited

0:27.1

to show it off.

0:27.9

But first, we thought we'd cover something close to home.

0:30.5

So you will have doubtless noticed the fact that reform, the party, have been in the news

0:36.0

a great deal recently, partly because

0:38.1

their chair, Zia Yusuf, resigned and then unresigned 48 hours later. That's been the big

0:43.4

ticket headline about reform recently. But actually, of course, reform have been far more

0:48.0

prominent because on the 1st of May, they won big in quite a lot of local elections held

0:53.0

around the country, so they took control of 10 local

0:55.6

authorities outright. Sarah has been writing a little bit about what has actually been going on

1:01.9

in those 10 county councils and local authorities since the beginning of May. So Sarah,

1:08.3

we wanted to ask you, how's it going so far? And what is the agenda that they

1:14.0

have? What is their big, big offer to the electorate? I think, first of all, Reform UK is going to

1:20.3

be the gift that keeps on giving to the Rotten Boroughs page. I think the last five issues,

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