Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shops, The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday roundup.

This week's remarkable election results

or Labour secure a land-side victory whilst receiving fewer votes than the party did under

Jeremy Corbyn in 2017. Combined, Labour and the Conservatives had the lowest share of the vote since

1945.

On Sky News this morning Trevor Phillips asked the new business and trade secretary Jonathan Reynolds

if the country's electoral system was sustainable.

When it comes to parties like Reform and the Green Party,

they do get far less scrutiny because they're not seen as parties of government

are going to elect significant numbers.

Now maybe that should change.

I think that's something to address.

I mean, I've met a lot of good people in this

campaign who told me they were voting reform. When you explain to them they

support in reform the economic policies of Liz trust and the foreign policies of Vladimir

Putin, they're horrified so you know now they're in Parliament they'll policies of List trusts and the foreign policies of Vladimir Putin.

They're horrified.

Now they're in Parliament, they'll get the level of scrutiny they deserve.

Yeah, but look, I'm not being part of it.

I don't want to be partisan here.

This isn't an issue about democracy.

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