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

I'm Oscar Edmondson and I'm joined today by Fraser Nelson and James Heel.

So Labour have launched their local elections campaign today and have done so with a joint

op-ed from Kieostama and Angela Rayna in the Times promising to empower localities and put an end to the regional divide.

This is all encompassed in their Take Back Control Act, a phrase which I'm sure listeners will be familiar with James.

Yeah, so today was the launch of Labour's local election campaign

and Kiyastama started it by saying, you know, I'd hope this was going to be

the campaign for the national election. I think that really sort of there was a

subdue element to all of this and I think that's because the whole conversation

in Westminster elsewhere is just dominated by this never-ending parlor game of

when's the election going to be.

And I think it's very telling the Haps that the local election speech he gave today

could actually have been a sort of carbon off-the-shelf national campaign launch.

So he was talking about the Tories's failures etc and how it was

really important these local elections to send a message to Rishi Sunag as you say

Oscar the main pitch from today was how they're trying to park labours tanks

on the Tory lawn by talking about

leveling up and seeking to bury the Tories by praising Boris Johnson saying

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