Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Page 94.

My name is Helen Lewis and I'm filling in for Andrew Hunter Murray, who has this week sadly failed to develop vetting.

I'm in the Private Eye studio with Adam McQueen in Hislop and Sabah Salmon, editor of Rotten boroughs.

The local elections are coming up and it's going to be a splintering, I guess,

of Britain as people vote against Labour and the Tory's where they're still standing. What does the

picture look like? Well, let me paint you a little picture of Sunderland. Come with me as I take you

to one of the big reform rallies. Because that is when Nigel Farage of Reform launched his campaign.

So he must be pretty confident of winning it, or that would be quite embarrassing.

Absolutely.

So I'll just take you to Sunderland with me now.

So if you picture and seen 2,000 strong stadium room, big lights, music to announce all of the speakers.

And a tune that you may not know, it's called Street Rev Anthem by

an electronica pop producer. Why has Nigel Farge got better taste in music than me? That's

absolutely. Nigel I was going to say coming into Wright-Said Fred, but unfortunately that's

my brain has supplied that because Nigel Farage does often sing along to I'm too sexy by right, said Fred.

That's right. But, you know, small mercies, no Andrew Jenkins singing her own tune, so at least that's something.

So, yeah, so in Sunderland, he's basically banging on about the same thing, which is low tax, community voices, which is kind of what local councillors do anyway, so not a difficult promise to make.

And they don't set the tax?

Well, council tax is set at a local level with guidance by government.

But I think what's interesting with the reform promises on this, as we've said in Rotten

boroughs, is that a lot of the reform councils

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