We are heading into perhaps the most consequential local election in recent memory.

Forecasters are expecting big gains for reform in the Lib Dems and a bad showing for Labour and the Tories.

Could we be looking at the end of the two-party system?

To make sense of what comes next, please do come along to our local elections shake-up event.

Join the spectators panel and special guests Sir Jacob Reesmog and Zia Yusuf as they

analyse the results on the 7th of May at the Emanuel Centre in Westminster. For tickets, go to

www.combe.combe.combeau-O.K. forward slash local elections live. Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics podcast.

I'm Patrick Givens and today I'm joined by a deputy political editor, James Hill, and Michael

Martens of Overton Advisory, and who previously worked as a former aid to both liberal and

conservative politicians in Canada. The world woke up today to the news that Mark Carney,

who many listeners will know as the man who led the Bank of England for almost seven years,

has won the Canadian election. Here's a clip from his victory speech earlier today.

As I've been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country.

Never.

But these are not idle threats.

President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us.

That will never, that will never, ever happen.

But we also must recognize the reality that our world has fundamentally changed.

Now James, there are a number of reasons why this is such a big achievement for Carney.

This was Carney's first election, having been Prime Minister for just over a month and without a

parliamentary seat. The Liberals have won an unprecedented fourth term. And just a few months ago,

the Conservatives had a poll lead of over

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