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The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Natasha Fros and I'm joined by Katie Balls and James Heel.

I think the Conservatives are going to be licking their wounds after a particularly bad by-election

result over the weekend.

Katie, this week is Ritchie's one year anniversary.

Do you think he can bounce back from such a poor result at the weekend?

Well it's obviously a hard task because I think has been written many times by many people and said many times on this

podcast but I suppose where are we after two very bad

by-election defeats I think you've seen you know lots of talk over the weekend

about as we said on the previous coffeehouse shots, you know, is Labor now heading to this

landslide and I think that the results clearly added to the optimism and

labor but also trying to say we're not complacent, we're not complacent. I think on

the Tory side we are inevitably now in the place

where everyone you speak to has a different opinion on what Ritchie-Sounecks should do

in order to turn things around and it's not great timing that I think it's Wednesday to the day

which will be Ritchie Sunec's one-year anniversary and I think you know it's no

great secret I think that Ritchie Sunec and his team would like him to be in a different place, one year on then around 20 points behind in the polls, having lost multiple by-elections and for potentially another by-election soon coming up the track.

They're still technically in a place where it's better than what he took over from.

If you think about the 30-point lead labor seemed to have and Liz Trust was in place,

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