By-election special: Tories trounced in two, scrape home in one

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🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Nish and Coco can’t resist popping up for a special bonus mini-episode to discuss the Super Thursday by-election results. A revolt against Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan’s Ulez low emissions policy hands the Tories a lifeline to hang on to their seat in Uxbridge and Ruislip - Coco hopes that doesn’t encourage Labour HQ to sideline their green agenda. Better news for Labour in Selby and Ainsty where Kier the Younger - Labour candidate Keir Mather - successfully overturns the biggest majority ever in a by-election by the Labour Party. While in Somerton and Frome a huge win for the Liberal Democrats means Coco gets to enjoy leader Ed Davey pulling another of his cheesy victory stunts.

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0:00.0	Hello, Podsave the UK listeners. This is Nishkumar and I'm joined as always by the one and only.
0:06.2	Coco, Coco. Hi, Coco. Oh my God, that's so weird you said that because, you know, recently we've
0:10.8	been talking about fake email addresses. My very first email address was the one and only UK 155.
0:19.2	I'm just sorry, I just really taken a bet by that. I picked 155 just to be certain that there
0:24.9	were not another 154, the one and only's out there, you know. The use of the number afterwards
0:31.2	just slightly negate the claim is all I would say. Okay, I take that. I was 125th all
0:38.7	and only. They broke the mold and then quickly remade the mold and use it 150 times.
0:45.9	Yeah, exactly. I wish you wouldn't point things out like that. That's so annoying. You've ruined
0:50.9	my childhood memory. But today's the day of many ruins, isn't it? Yes, it's it's that was a
0:59.1	hell of a segway. That was a hell of a segway. It's the afternoon after the, the by-elections,
1:06.2	the three by-elections that we mentioned on the most recent episode of the show. They are, I guess,
1:15.0	do you think the Tory party will view this as a victory because we were talking about
1:18.3	than possibly losing all three in the event they've lost two. So they lost some it's
1:24.3	some it's an infroom to the Liberal Democrats and Selby and Aynstie to the Labour party. They held
1:31.8	on to Boris Johnson's ulti of Uxbridge and South Rhyselip where they now hold an enormous
1:38.0	humongous majority of 495 that decisively shows Rishi Sudak's policy of being a bit of an
1:46.0	asshole has cut through. I mean, look, I, I don't think it's as good for Labour as they might
1:54.1	like to claim that it is and I agree with you that Uxbridge, they won on the Ules messaging,
2:00.6	right? So apparently there's loads of people in Uxbridge that love cars and love having bad lungs
2:05.6	and that's fine. That is their decision. Yeah, we should just contextualise that briefly that the
2:10.8	Ules policy is specifically something that Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has brought in
2:17.8	that means if your vehicle doesn't meet the ultra low emission zone standards within London that
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