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Hello, I'm Stephen. I'm Alfa. I'm Anish.

And in a first for the New Statement Podcast, we are a hybrid podcast this week with I and Alfa

coming from our podcast Catacombe and Anish coming from wherever Anish is coming from.

We discuss the future of the office. No, we discuss the Cheshire and Amherstian by-election,

what that means for the Conservatives and backly in Spain and what that means for Labour.

And we also discuss the Liberal Democrats and Lee mean fighting by-election winning machine.

The Liberal Democrat victory in the Cheshire and Amherstian by-election has triggered a sort of host of

internal Tory recrimination, blame, debate about what they've got wrong, what they need to change,

and also the world's funniest article slash Twitter thread from The Defeated Candidate Peterfleet,

which really is just kind of like, if you haven't seen it, you really should seek it out.

It's kind of if someone wanted to the sort of very model of graceless loosering, it's beautifully done.

It's very that thing and come down with me that, you know, what a sad little life, Jane.

No, no, no, explain why he was kept away from journalists during the campaign.

Actually, I'm quite happy, like grateful to him for writing it because it's a helpful insight into

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