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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots,

Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Isabelle Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup.

This week, each political party has been managing expectations ahead of the imminent local elections.

The Secretary of State for Transport Mark Harper reiterated the worst case prediction

that the Conservatives could lose up to a thousand seats.

But Keir Starmer told Sophie Reachie thought the Conservatives should be making significant gains,

given their result in the last local elections in 2019, was their second worst ever.

Well, seriously saying the Conservatives should be making significant gains right now?

Well, in 2019, that was their second worst result ever.

And Theresa May, as I say, apologise to the candidate.

I think three weeks later, she was challenged for the leadership,

resigned and that was effectively those results.

I mean, the Conservatives are saying we should be expecting a thousand losses.

Well, if they are, I find that astonishing.

If they're saying that they're going to go below their second worst set of results

in these elections, then they truly are going backwards.

But that, I think, is just expectation management or their part.

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