Good evening and welcome to a very special live stream here on Navarra Media as we analyze the outcomes and implications of last week's local elections results with me.

I couldn't think of anyone better.

Michael Walker and Aaron Bessani. How are you both?

You're a very balanced panel this evening.

Sky News style.

Offcom regulation.

They were already beefing before the cameras went live.

And maybe we can bring in a little bit of that over the course of tonight.

So we're going to be discussing whether reform might be on course to form a government.

And what are the potential obstacles and banana skins in their way on the road to number 10?

Tomorrow night we're going to be talking about Labor.

Have they shagged it, basically?

Are they going to be able to turn the ship around by 2029?

Or are challenger parties from both the left and the right,

going to make sure that they capsize for good.

Before we get started, I want to say, like, I always do that.

I believe that media is only as good as the context that it includes.

And that's why so much of establishment political media gets caught flat-footed.

So, Kirstama's surprise tanking in the polls, or reform doing well at the local elections, or even something like Brexit,

it always catches these people by surprise because they don't like to look outside of Westminster.

And I think that that's important for the story that we're covering tonight.

The reason why reforms message can cut through is because most of our political journalism is just low information slot.

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