Now in the 2024 election of course not that long ago now week and a half go there were some pretty stunning results and amongst them were the well there were five independent candidates who were elected one of them of course is jerry cauldron the former leader of the Labour Party who was

purged by his successor but four other independent candidates were also elected

now this is quite astonishing. Since 1950, only eight independent

candidates have been elected in a competitive election and general election.

I'm excluding Martin Bell. He an independent candidate labor stood down for him

So there were eight in total since 950 and five of them were elected in this general election.

Pretty astonishing.

Now, I'm really delighted to be speaking to one of those.

I think it's very legitimate to describe

a historic victory by Shrocka Adam in Leicester South. This was an astonishing result.

He overturned the massive whopping majority of Jonathan Ashworth,

not any old labor MP, a Shadow Cabinet Minister, one of Kistama's

key allies who expected to get a plum job in the Labour government. In 2017, his majority was over 26,000, he had 73.6% of the vote.

In the last, in 2019, despite Labour's overall bad overall result he's still got 67% of the vote

he got 33,500 votes a majority of 22,675.

Not this time, this election,

his majority was overturned by Shaka Adams,

who got around 1,000 more votes than him.

He did not see that coming.

Shaka, it's a big honor to see you.

How you doing?

And brilliant, thank you so much for having me on the show.

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