This is The Guardian.

I feel as angry as people watching this morning, and like you, cannot fathom how on earth this has happened.

I think that is absolutely where the public are in terms of not just cynicism,

but resignation and anger about state failure. We do have to take this really seriously, and we do.

People feel that this government is not being bold enough in delivering the kind of change we promised.

I'll be a champion for our labour values

and boldness in everything we do. It starts with us wrestling back the political megaphone and

setting the agenda more strongly. Because let's be honest, we've let Farage and his ilk run away with it.

I'm Pippa Carrera and And I'm Aleni Carrera.

And you're listening to Politics Weekly for The Guardian.

So we're back in the broom cupboard this week.

And we have Aleni from our Guardian team here at Westminster,

just standing in for Kieran, who's disappeared away on holiday.

How dare he take some time off?

But thank you very much, Lenny, for joining us on the Politics Weekly podcast. It's great to be here.

Thanks for having me. Now, there's no question that the last week's been another bad one for the government, hasn't it?

There was the expected but nevertheless brutal by-election lost in the Welsh government carophilicite in the South Welsh Valleys.

Accusations that the grooming gang's inquiry was failing victims

and the election of Kirstorma's least preferred candidate, albeit out of two, as deputy leader of his party.

So it might be that the government's arrived back at Westminster today ready to turn the page, but that might have to wait because there's plenty else coming up this week.

We've heard from the Home Affairs Select Committee, which is a cross-party group of MPs.

They've issued a major report which has told us that this government in the last one has squandered 15 billion quid of taxpayers' money on asylum hotels, many of which are often barely

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