Welcome to a live special extra special live edition of the spike podcast at the Battle of Ideas.

If you don't know me, I'm Fraser Myers the host. We're joined as ever by Tom Slater editor of Spikes.

Hello.

Brilliant Kathleen Stock.

Hello.

And the wonderful Graham Linaghan.

We will have...

Oh, give a round of floors. We will also be joined by Rakeba Sand, but he's slightly

delayed. He might have been caught up in the trans protests or did people make it

past the pup mask guy okay you're all here and safe so I'm assuming so I'm

so I'm assuming so I'm going to talk about today we're going to be talking

about what's going on in British politics we'll talk about today. We're going to be talking about the US election.

We'll talk a bit about the Middle East. But then after that, we'll have a chance to go out

to you, the audience. I get thinking about anything the labor government.

Tom, let's kick off,

let's talk a bit about the labor government.

I mean, there's been a lot of talk recently about,

you know, we've passed the 100 day mark

feels a lot longer I think you could say it's not going very well is that a fair

assessment I think you might be right it's certainly that's certainly the mood at the moment, that's certainly the atmosphere. It's

amazing how quickly everything has gone to pop for them. There was a poll a couple of weeks ago suggesting

that half of Labour's votes at the election are now

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