Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of page 94.

My name's Andrew Hunter-Murray and I'm here in the Eye Studio with Helen Lewis, Adam McQueen and Ian Hizlop.

If you're watching this, you may have already voted in the local elections.

You might even know the results.

But one really interesting thing about the whole campaign is that so much of it has focused on what we would think of previously as the edges of British politics on right and left, reform in the Greens.

It seems increasingly quite hard for the Conservatives and Labour, traditionally quite big players here.

You've missed out the Lib Dems again.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Which is the theme of the campaign.

Literally the Lib Dems are complaining.

Our polls, they were consistent. No one even mentioned us. Yeah. It's very unfair. I just thought I'd mentioned them. Is that a fair summary, Helen? Or is it? I think that the Greens and Zach Polanski

have taken up a vast majority of the oxygen in these campaigns for a very good reason. A lot of the seats that are being defended are Labour seats that are

kind of green facing. Some of them are reform facing. They expect to lose a huge number of seats.

So that's almost been kind of factored in at this point, right? The story, if Labor even do

slightly better than you think, everyone will kind of fall about themselves with shock, I'm bracing myself for a both reform and

green saying, the mainstream media underrated us, but look how well we've done. This will be a lie

if they say this. Everyone expects them to do incredibly well. And one of the things I found

most interesting, I was reading Jim Wharton's very good

newsletter London centric in which he referred to the fact they'd got their hands on last year

Reforms Local Elections Playbook, their canvassing handbook.

And one of the things they'd say to their candidates are let Nigel deal with the national

...