Labour Suffer HUGE Blow In Caerphilly By-Election
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🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Plaid Cymru’s Lindsay Whittle has taken a historic Labour stronghold in the Caerphilly by-election.
Plus: Ireland goes to the polls to elect a new President, why Zack Polanski’s brand of eco-populism is infuriating the right, and we speak to Times Columnist James Marriott about the decline of reading.
With: Michael Walker & Aaron Bastani.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Navarra Life is made possible by Navarra Media supporters. |
| 0:11.6 | To become one, go to Navaramedia.com forward slash support. |
| 0:16.5 | Welcome to Navaralife. I'm Michael Walker. It's a Friday night, which means I will be joined |
| 0:19.9 | later by Aaron Bastani. Lots coming up forra Life. I'm Michael Walker. It's a Friday night, which means I will be joined later by Aaron Bustani. Lots coming up for you tonight. Island is currently going to the polls to elect a new president. They might be electing someone very left wing who's very outspoken on Palestine. I'll speak to a commentator in Ireland. Zach Polanski's brand of eco-populism is infuriating people on the right. |
| 0:41.4 | I'll discuss with Aaron whether we should have 10 to 1 pay ratios. |
| 0:46.5 | And I'll end the show by speaking to Times columnist James Marriott about the decline of reading |
| 0:50.9 | and whether that poses a threat to civilization itself. |
| 0:55.4 | Incredibly interesting conversation based on an incredibly interesting and viral |
| 0:59.2 | substack post, which he's written. |
| 1:02.2 | I should say some breaking news just before we went live, which we will also be discussing. |
| 1:07.6 | If you haven't seen this yet, you couldn't really make it up. |
| 1:11.6 | They have accidentally released a prisoner, and the prisoner they've accidentally released |
| 1:18.6 | is the guy who did the sexual assault, the migrant who did the sexual assault, that caused |
| 1:24.6 | the riots in Epping that then spread around much of the country. |
| 1:29.3 | So probably the most, what ended up being the most inflammatory crime of the year, |
| 1:35.3 | the person who committed it has been accidentally released, |
| 1:39.6 | which I'm sure will do great things for calming down this country. I'll be discussing that with |
| 1:46.3 | Arabisdani. As ever, if you'd like to support our work, you can turn up at Navaramida.com |
| 1:51.2 | forward slash support. Straight into our first story, though, by elections to the Welsh |
| 1:56.1 | Senef don't usually count as political earthquakes in Britain. But yesterday's one in Kaffili |
| 2:01.8 | undoubtedly meets that threshold. Labor have represented the town in the centre since its creation |
| 2:08.3 | and so in the late 90s. And the town has sent a Labour MP to Westminster for over a century. |
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