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Hello, welcome to an emergency podcast from Oh God What Now with me, Andrew Harrison.

Well, at least it wasn't Matt Goodwin.

The Green Party won the Gorton and Denton bi-election, their first by-election winner ever,

with 40.7% of the vote beating reforming to second place on 28.7.

Labour's vote collapsed by 25% to less than 10,000 votes, and the Conservatives lost their deposit, with their lowest ever vote, just 706. You could probably fit all of them somewhere in our studio.

So what does it all mean? Would Labor have fared better if Kier Stama hadn't stopped Andy Burnham from standing? Is the reform

bandwagon quite as unstoppable as the press might have you think? And is the defenestration

of Kirstama back on the agenda? To talk it over, we have Ogwin regular and presenter of

more jam tomorrow, Ros Taylor. Hello, Ros. Hello. And legendary political commentator, friend of the pod and presenter of rock and roll politics, Steve Richards. Hello, Steve. Andrew. So, Ross, a pundit, do love to amp up the drama on by-elections, but Labour did lose a 13,000 majority that pushed into third place. They're now undeniably under attack from the left as well as the right.

How bad a night was it really? I mean, it was a very, very bad night for Labour. You can't spin that in any way. They came third. Given what a terrible candidate, Matt Goodwin was as well, it was very disappointing that they couldn't scrape second. And I mean, the days before the by-election, there was talk that they might even manage to get through and come first, and clearly that was wrong. I don't know how much tactical voting was going on, whether people felt that voting

green was the only way to keep reform out, or whether people were just voting with what they

saw as a more hopeful prospectus. But it was very bad. The only

crumbs of comfort that I think Labour can take from this is that the Green candidate looked like

a Labour candidate and was saying things that a Labour candidate would say and was very much

in that tradition of left-wing politics. And that suggests that there is still scope with the right

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