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Hi, I'm Anouche. I'm Alfa. And I'm Stephen.

And on today's New Statement Podcast, we discuss the Cheshem and Amishem by-election

and you ask us why hasn't Cressida Dick resigned?

So we're recording on the day before the Cheshem and Amishem by-election.

Alfa, you've been there this week reporting.

Tell us what the atmosphere is like on the ground and what you think is likely to play out.

It's so funny, I always feel nervous taking the temperature at a by-election place

before we get the result knowing that people will be reading the piece or listening to the verdict

when they actually know. But I'm kind of guided by my experience and hearty pull as well

and adjusting from that where I still thought the Labour may be would narrowly hold onto that.

I think in Cheshem and Amishem, which is a safe conservative seat at the moment

and it's the by-election there as being held because Cheryl Gillin, the long-standing MP

passed away earlier this year. I think that the Lib Dems could win there.

And if they don't win, it'll be a very narrow defeat for the conservatives.

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