Hello, dysfunctioners, it's Beth here with another summer special.

After spending the last week, unpacking the Labour government's first year in power.

This week, I want to flip the script.

We're going to the other side of the House of Commons to examine the state of the opposition

because there's been a dramatic shift.

I actually think that reform are going to replace the conservativesatives at the next election because they seem

to have an argument and they seem to know what that argument is at a time when the Conservatives

don't have an argument and don't know what they stand for and they are also building up

their organisation. So who is the official government opposition? That was Harrett on the pod earlier this

year and you could argue she's got a point there. Reform UK have had a bump a year. They won 41%

of council seats up in the mayor elections and they seem to be celebrating Tory defactions

month after month. They're very good at the moment, I have to say, about grabbing

the mic. And so I spent a lot of time this year with one of Reform's loudest voices and arguably

one of their most important players right now. Now, ladies and gentlemen, we have a new dawn

in British politics.

Is that a sign?

The rebuilding begins here.

Today, we as reform, as we're making gains up and down the country,

you will see an end to soft touch Britain.

That was Dame Andrea Jenkins, reforms's mayor of Greater Lincolnshire,

who herself defected from the Tories.

Remember, she was a minister in Boris Johnson's government and one of his biggest cheerleaders.

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