By elections don't come much bigger than this.

The Greens didn't just win it.

It was a blow-up.

They stormed to victory.

I'm joined by Aaron Bustani, who is straight back from Manchester.

You were there.

Are you exhausted? You haven't had so much sleep?

Exhausted? No. I'm pretty tired You haven't had so much sleep?

Exhausted? No, I'm pretty tired. I've had three hours sleep. Energized. Well, you know, look, if the Greens had lost, I would have, you know, Michael, I don't quite fancy it so much. But it's been an extraordinary story. We'll talk about it. I think easily the most important by-election in my lifetime. Yeah, and we'll be talking about it for the next hour. I won't do any trails because we're just talking about this story.

I'm expecting loads of you to be tuning in. Enormous day for British politics. Before we get started, of course, don't forget to support our work. We always appreciate it. You can sign up at Navarra Media.com forward slash support. As ever, you can listen to the show on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. The polls had suggested it was a dead heat.

The result was in fact a blowout in the Gordon and Denton by-election.

The Green candidate Hannah Spencer won the constituency by more than 4,000 votes.

I didn't grow up wanting to be a politician.

I'm a plumber.

And two weeks ago, during all this, I also qualified as a

plasterer because even in chaos, even under pressure, I get things done. I am no different to every

single person here in this constituency. I work hard. That is what we do.

Except things have changed a lot over the last few decades.

Because working hard used to get you something.

It got you a house, a nice life, holidays.

It got you somewhere.

But now, working hard, what does that get you?

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