You know that guy I've been seeing?

Yeah.

Turns out my sister's been seeing him too.

Oh, really?

And I heard he's been seeing Kelly at number 56.

And Dave?

Your brother?

Yep.

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so your care is their business,

which can make them rather popular. I've got something to tell you. I've got half an hour with

him this afternoon. Spexavers, a weekly podcast on British politics from the Financial Times.

I'm Sebastian Payne, Digital Comment Editor, and this week

we will be dissecting the local and regional elections on Thursday and what they mean for the

Conservatives, Labour, SMP, England, Wales and

well the whole country. I'm delighted to be joined by our top-flight

range of commentators. Our political editor, George Parker, the F.T. Chief

Political Commentator Philip Stevens, Chief Political Correspondent Jim Picard,

and Tony Blair's former Political Secretary, now Labour commentator John McTurnen.

Thank you all for joining.

So elections were held this week across Britain and the results were a bit of a

mixed bag. Labour's vote chair dropped by around 6% which is generally rare for a leader

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