Welcome to O God What Now, I'm Doreen-Linsky and I'm still high on politics. On today's show, Prime Minister Kir Starma, which is a lovely phrase, is in Washington,

D.C. for a summit to mark the 75th anniversary of NATO. It was Labour's Clement Attlee and Ernest Bevan who co-founded NATO. It was Labbethans Clement Attley and Ernest Bevin who co-founded

NATO. How does stama and Foreign Secretary David Lammy see the UK's role in the world?

Plus, the Lib Dem strategic genius, Labor's peculiar losses, a sea change in Scotland and

reforms overrated performance.

We unpack some of the election trends you might have missed.

And in the extra bit for supporters, the panel look back on the election nights

they love to remember and some they have tried to forget. Let's meet today's panel

first it's Westminster editor for the lead Zoe Grunervold. Hi Zoe.

Hello.

Reform UK were accused of literally fabricating AI candidates.

Now they've admitted that some of them are actual human beings,

but many did not campaign or turn up for the count.

And obviously there's a significant legal difference because, like I believe you could go to

jail for inventing candidates, but is there like a substantial difference between paper candidates and non-existent ones?

So you're right that paper candidates aren't particularly uncommon.

We know that a lot of parties have paper candidates, which are essentially

candidates who are there and are real, but don't really expect to win, so don't really turn

up. But this seems to be a little bit different. So there have been

several high-profile democracy campaigners who have called for an investigation by the

Electoral Commission into this. Parliamentary candidates are not required to show identification when applying to stand for election,

but obviously we are when we go and vote at the ballot box.

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