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Hi, I'm Anouche. And I'm Alfa. And on today's New Statement podcast,

we're joined by our polling expert, Ben Walker, to talk about the issues of the day.

And then in you ask us, we're joined by our political reporter, Freddie Hayward,

to talk about the privatisation of Channel 4.

We're delighted to be joined again by our polling expert, Ben Walker, who's been incredibly busy

the past few weeks, launching a new project. State of the nation is a new poll election

and numbers site launched by the New Statement for understanding why is Britain like that?

It hosts trackers that help cut through the noise and contribute to some of the

oft-disgust issues of our time. How popular is Boris? Who would win an election tomorrow?

Will Scotland vote for independence? Where is unemployment highest? Who has fallen into

fuel poverty? And so forth? If you haven't seen it, please go and check it out. It's a brilliant

resource. It's at sotn.newstatesman.com. But Ben, we're here to ask you a few more

topical questions today in a sort of extended version of you ask Ben. One of the questions from

our listeners is, do the raw numbers in the polls show an actual increase for Labour over

Starmer's leadership, or is it more a case of the Tories losing voters to apathy or other parties?

than Labour. I know we've spoken about this subject before, but let's see if that trend has

persisted in the poll since we last discussed this. Yes, thank you for having me once more.

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