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Hi, I'm Alfa.

I'm Anouche and I'm Steven.

And you're listening to the New Statement Podcast.

On today's episode, we ask Anouche about her recent trip to Barclays in Spain ahead of the by-election

and you ask us, was Kira Stormer's reshuffle of his top team a sign of strength or weakness?

So Anouche is just back from visiting Barclays in Spain, reporting on the by-election coming up.

We're all hearing from lots of labour people that they think they are definitely going to lose and lose badly.

So I'm just fascinated Anouche as to how it felt on the grind there.

Yeah, definitely felt from the labour people that I spoke to that it's not going well.

One of the main things was George Galloway crashing into the by-election with his band of merry men stirring up populist resentment in the labour party among Muslim communities in the constituency which is a significant demographic there.

But interestingly, he's also targeting white voters as well.

Doing the kind of almost the sort of anti-woke right wing rhetoric that we've seen.

So he's going to be in a rally with Lawrence Fox and a man called Paul Halloran who was the person who stood for the heavy will and independence in the 2019 election

and got a really significant chunk of the vote and came third, who is more complex figure obviously than Lawrence Fox.

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