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Welcome to Navaralife. I'm Michael Walker, and it's a Friday evening, which means I'm joined by Aaron Bustani.

What are we going to be discussing tonight, I'll tell you. We speak to a humanitarian aid worker in Gaza about the complete siege on the strip, which has been going on for 54 days now, really disturbing, and a really important interview, I think.

We'll also discuss

the billionaire push to privatise space, and we've got a really interesting clip for you, with Dawn Butler

debating the Supreme Court's ruling on gender. Straight into our first story, next week,

both Labor and the Tories look set to receive a shock from reform in the first set of

major elections since Kirstama became Prime Minister. And there are 23 councils up for grabs in these

elections, most of them in the traditional Tory shires and currently under Tory control.

And Labor Control, Doncaster is also going to the polls.

Kemi Badenock, for her part, has suggested the Tories could lose every single one of those

councils that they're contesting.

She's likely intentionally setting her expectations or setting our expectations very low

in attempt to frame holding just one of them as a victory. She's

say, oh, well, I said we'd lose all of them and we only lost 22 of them, right? This is expectation

management, you might call it. You can see, though, why she might be pessimistic. Now, the last time

these council seats were up for election, Boris Johnson was still riding high in the polls. It was

before Partygate, and the Tories received 40% at the vote with Labour on 30%. Now polls this time around

show the Tories with their support halved to 20% and reform coming first with 25% support Labour

are on just 23%. The most high profile contests of the night won't be for those councils though, but rather won't

one Westminster by-election and votes for six mayors.

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