Hello, this is the Redbox Podcast. I'm Matt Shorty bringing the rest of my times ready

to show you can listen live Monday to Friday, 10 till 1, on your DAB radio, on your smart

speaker or download the times radio app. But as ever, we bring you the best of the show

right here on the Redbox Podcast. Today, honestly, by elections are like buses, you wait

ages to 1 and then 3 come along. Once there's 3 by elections taking place in a fortnight

we're on the ground in Oxbridge, Selby and Summerton and Fum, to get a sense of what's

really going on and can wish you soon hang on to any of them. That's coming up in just

a moment. But first, as we always do, let's take a look at the news with the colourists.

Manvine Rana, and someone called Matthew on Times Radio. We serve a good morning to

Manvine Rana. Morning, Manvine Rana. Hello. And this week's Matthew is his back. It's

Matthew. Bow. Morning, Matthew. Great, hello, hello, good morning. Can I start with both

you? Did either of you know what the word Overseas meant before this morning? No. I

wait lie. No. Matthew, you're well-educated, posh, young man. Well, it does rhyme with

policy, sort of. So you can see whether how they came up with it. But yeah, I mean, it's

a brilliant new word. And it's a brilliant idea to talk about Overseas. It just distracts

from everything else. It's a whole new dimension of politics. We haven't even thought of.

I say it's genius. Well, in fact, so Keir Starmer is making his big speech today. It

is his fifth and final mission. I know we've been ticking them all off on our wall charts

at home. Here he has speaking, literally in the last couple of minutes, about improving

social mobility. This speech should demonstrate two things. One, that Labour has a plan to

tear down the barriers to opportunity that hold this country and its people back. Two,

that I see this mission as our core purpose and my personal cause, to fight at every stage

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