Who will win the next UK general election?

Hello, I'm Lucy Fisher and this is political fix from the Financial Times.

After the Tories suffered major losses in last week's Maryland Council elections,

we're taking stock and looking ahead. Coming up, we're making available an FT's Inside Politics subscriberinar, where I was joined by my F.T. colleagues

Camilla Cavendish, George Parker and Stephen Bush, all on hand to answer questions from

viewers. I kicked off for the question to Stephen asking him what his takeaways were from the local elections.

The ones which are the most interesting... his takeaways were from the local elections.

The ones which are the most interesting are your classic marginals,

Redditch, Nunn Eaton and Bedworth, Canuck Chase,

and then Harlow.

Now the thing which is different about Harlow to those first three

is the Labour Party won those first three at a canter,

confirming all of the indications we have that the Labour Party is going to win the next

election. Under Jeremy Corbyn in particular and also under Ed Miliband they did very well

at adding lots of extra graduates in seats they already held. What they are clearly doing under Kia Starma is they are losing some of those votes had gained under

Corbyn and Millerband in the city centres and they are gaining lots of additional votes in

marginal constituencies with one quite

interesting exception which is and I'm sure some people who are in Harlow would get

very annoyed and say this in outer London both its actual boundaries, but those places which actually when you think about it, they are firmly within London's economic orbit.

I think that to me has been the really interesting thing about this election, confirming the extent of the labor lead but also

confirming a kind of fascinating pattern of some geographical exceptions to that lead.

And Camilla there's been some questions about what the results of the loss of

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