Hello and welcome to the political party. This is a bonus local election

result show with Greg Cook. Greg's been on the show before he was the leading

sophologist in the Labour Party for many years. So he understands

what these results mean for the next election and indeed what they don't mean for

the next election. So it's about extrapolating local data, trying to understand it on a national

level, but also getting the benefit of his expertise of his long career of knowing what

it's like to be Labour in this position going into a national election and what it's like to be labor in this position going into a national

election and what it means and also just his natural caution and

labor's natural caution about understanding this data and what it would mean for a labor victory and the reasons for that

and what is the politics of the country and how is it showing in these election results.

So this is a fantastic insight into what the Labour Party will be thinking going on the back of these election results and how they feel about their chances nationally, but also just some really good context about them that I've not heard elsewhere.

So this is a real great chat with an expert.

As you may have seen, I am returning to stand-up in a few weeks at the Soho Theatre.

I'll be doing some work-in- progress shows from the 28th of May to the 1st of June.

There's a link in the blurb where you can click and buy tickets and in August I will be doing

the Edinburgh Festival which is great because I love doing it and it's just obviously just

a sign that I've made a certain level of progress physically which is just a huge relief

so when those tickets are on sale I'll put a link to those as well I will shut up here for

and the caveat on this this was recorded late Friday afternoon

so not all the results have come in but I still think enough had come in to get a general sense of it all and this analysis from Greg is brilliant. Greg, it's great to have you on the show again, particularly as a lot of results have come in at the point that we're talking, not all results have.

I've seen in a lot of the coverage that the Tease Valley Merrill election is getting a lot of a lot of the coverage.

Now I know that the Tories are going to say well this proves that we're okay because it was one that they expected to win and they when they were managing expectations ahead of last night that's what they wanted people to to be focusing on. But really other than the fact that it was

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