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Hello, welcome to this week's All-Out Politics Podcast.

I'm Adam Bolton.

Today we're going to talk about this week's by-elections in Copeland and Stoke-on-Trent.

We'll be joined by Grace Blakely from IPR North to talk about whether the North is being fobbed off in terms of government funding in spite of all that talk of a northern powerhouse. And we'll have Sky News Arts and Entertainment

correspondent Katie Spencer talking about whether we can predict who's going to win those Oscars

this weekend.

Well, joining us are our senior political correspondent, Beth Rigby, and as ever,

Head of Sky Data, Harry Carr, welcome to you both.

All right then, Beth, set the scene to buy elections on Thursday this week.

What's at stake?

Well, Adam, I really like by-elections, but these two are particularly exciting.

You've got two, you've got one in Copeland.

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