Hello and welcome to the Spike podcast. I'm Fraser Myers with me in the studio as ever.

It's like to have editor Tom Slater.

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And joining us down the line, we've got Candice Hodsworth.

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Loads to talk about today. We'll be discussing the ongoing fallout from the local elections and the humiliation of Kirstama.

We'll be talking about the attempts to suppress the AFD in Germany and the fight back

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So when we're on from the local elections, the sort of fallout has been pretty extraordinary. It's now clear just how sort of dominant reform were in those results, you know, going above 30% across the

country. Labour losing often many of the, many sort of old, its old heart lands by double-digit figures.

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