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Sorry. Not quite sure how to begin the show today really there's not much going on is there

we might be hearing from secure star but later on apparently still writing his uh victory speech

which he's not obviously going to be making uh we think he might be speaking in the next hour

if he if he does we will go to him but let's face it it is a beautiful day out there

we intend to celebrate the first week of may with a great deal of gusto this morning.

After all, why wouldn't you wake up, look out at the sunshine and once and head into the weekend with a bit headache after taking a pounding in the local elections and losing Hartlepool to the Tories for the first time in the history of the seat.

That's right.

The beleaguered Labour leader is now facing a revolt inside his own party and his answer is he thinks it might be time for a reshuffle.

Great.

Well done.

Fantastic idea, Sequea.

Where are all those people that said he was very forensic?

Where are all those people who said that the polls that were being taken just before the election up in Hartlepool were wrong?

Too small to be counted. Obviously there's a problem in Hartlepool but there's no way the Labour Party are going to lose that seat.

Maybe what he should have done is listened more and talked a little bit less.

Maybe he shouldn't have told that public at him bath that he wouldn't take lectures from the

likes of him.

Starmer's leadership hangs by thread this morning. He's proved himself at the ballot box

to be even less electable than Jeremy Corby, Remenancey. The question I have for you this morning

is this. Is the Labour Party actually finished? And if it's not,

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