Hello, hello, hello, welcome to the show. I hope you're not all as feeling as worse

where I am after the England match might have slightly over done it, just showing my

patriotic commitment so no one can smear me for that anymore. It's been a long week.

I mean, I think I'd now say that every week, and I think it's pretty, a pretty

ad description of the times in which we live. Today we're focusing on Labour. I am bored

actually about talking about Labour, because I would like to, and I do focus, and it's

what I say this on the government and on the Tories. A little preamble here, actually,

because this is a very important show we've got a lot to discuss. We've got some great

guests who are far more interesting than I am. And the reason we have to talk about it

is if the opposition don't get their act together, we're going to be stuck with Conservative

rule for a very long time. 150,000 people have died in one of the worst handling of COVID-19

on Earth. We've had three lockdowns, which we're in post-tool-ate. The economy reopened

too quickly without a functioning test and trace system, which is handed to the private

sector, and those cronies like Cerco, who made an absolute mess of it, we have one of

the worst economic consequences as a result on Earth. And the Tories are very considerably

ahead in most opinion polls. They're doing very well, as things stand, they are heading

for a bigger, a better result than what I think we'd all agree from the Labour's perspective

was a calamity for the left in 2019. So we do have to have this conversation. We obviously

have spent most of our time on this channel talking about the Tories and the Right, but

we have to talk about the opposition. Now, what we're going to talk about today, there's

a few things we're going to talk about. We're going to talk about the lessons from Batley

and Spen. Now, Labour, which I'm glad about, I should say this because I get a lot, I find

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