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Welcome to The Rest is Politics with me, Alastair Campbell.

And with me, Rory Stewart.

So this is a traditional emergency podcast driven by the fact that politics in general is getting more and more unstable.

So people are hearing more and more of these.

And the story today is Kirstama's leadership now seems to be under probably its most serious challenge that we seem to date.

Looks as though something like ATMPs now privately or in public have come out asking for him to suggest when he's going to step down.

There's a cabinet meeting happening

as we speak. And of course, to remind people, the immediate trigger for this was the local elections,

which was on some measurements, I think the worst Labour showing ever in local elections, lost

well over 1,200 seats, particularly catastrophic in places like Wales where Labour went off the edge of a cliff.

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