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Kirstalma has faced many challenges in his first year as Labour leader, but he hasn't been tested at the ballot box.

On May the 6th, that will change.

I'm Raphael Bear, columnist for the Guardian, and this is Politics Weekly.

Since the historic victory of 1945, there have only been three Labour winners.

I want to be the fourth.

On April the 4th last year, Sir Keir Rodney-Starmer comfortably won the election to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party.

But that, it turns out, was the easy bit.

How would he unite a party that had spent the previous five years in bitter, factional feuding?

How would he introduce himself to a country that had just delivered Labour its lowest tally of MPs in an election since 1935?

What would be his mission? And how could he get Labour's lost voters to listen?

Those were tough enough problems even before the UK was plunged into an epoch defining public health emergency.

And that didn't leave much political bandwidth for the opposition.

So how's it going? Labour opinion is divided, why the public opinion has been up and down, a little more down in recent months.

But that's just opinion polls.

In May, voters will have a say in local and devolved elections and a critical by-election in Hartleypool.

But it isn't just the Tories hoping to capitalise on Labour's ongoing difficulty.

The Green Party sees an opportunity to pounce and pick up a few council seats.

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