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Hello and welcome to Coffeyhouse shots, the Spectators Daily and

sometimes more than Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Oscar Edmondson and I'm

joined by Fraser Nelson and Katie Bals.

So the local election results are coming in and it's looking like the worst night for the

Conservatives for 40 years. Katie, we should say that there are many more results to come in,

but can you take us through the

damage report so far? Yes as you say it's early days but I think we do have enough to

get a flavor of the way things are shaking out and that is effectively labor making some significant inroads and the

Tory is suffering some heavy losses. Now I think probably the first to look at is a

Blackpool by election just in the sense when polling beams closed at 10 p.m. on Thursday night you had

labour quite quickly coming out, Pam McFad and their campaign coordinator and

saying, judge us by Blackpool,

Blackpool is the most important thing

in the entire local elections,

even though of course it's a by-election

that's been added in, which I think told you

that they're feeling very confident.

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