Show 350. James Frith

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🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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James Frith

JUST ANNOUNCED:

Come and see The Political Party LIVE at the Edinburgh Festival with the following guests:

13 August: Anas Sarwar

18 August: Jacob Rees-Mogg

19 August: Sarah Brown

Tickets: https://www.mattforde.com/live-shows

James won the Bury North seat for Labour in 2017. He lost it in 2019 by just 105 votes.

A few weeks ago James won the seat for a second time with a majority of nearly 7000.

So what is going on in Bury and how much of a role, if any, did Reform play in the result?

Why hasn't Bury seen rioting by the hard right when other places have?

And more importantly, will James ever go to Glastonbury again?

SEE Matt on tour at the Edinburgh Festival and nationwide

2024

31 July - 25 August: Edinburgh, The Pleasance

2 October: Norwich Playhouse

3 October: Maidenhead, Norden Farm

9 October: Middlesbrough, The Crypt

10 October: London, Leicester Square Theatre

24 October: Hull, Truck Theatre

6 November: Exeter, Phoenix

8 November: Tunbridge Wells, Trinity Theatre

14 November: Basingstoke, The Haymarket

15 November: Colchester Arts Centre

20 November: York, The Crescent

21 November: Chorley, Little Theatre

22 November: Salford, The Lowry

27 November: Chipping Norton Theatre

28 November: Leicester, Y Theatre

29 November: Eastleigh, The Berry

31 November: Faversham, The Alexander Centre

2025

4 February: Leeds, City Varieties

5 February: Sheffield, The Leadmill

6 February: Chelmsford Theatre

7 February: Bedford, The Quarry Theatre

12 February: Bath, Komedia

13 February: Southend, Palace Theatre

16 February: Cambridge, The Junction

20 February: Nottingham, Lakeside Arts

23 February: Brighton, Komedoa

25 February: Cardiff, Glee Club

26 February: Bury St Edmunds, Theatre Royal

2 March: Bristol, Tobacco Factory

11 March: Aberdeen, Lemon Tree

12 March: Glasgow, Glee Club

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0:00.0	BP is working to roll out EV charging hubs in the UK and we're keeping oil and gas
0:06.0	flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all that's how BP is backing Britain.
0:11.8	While today we're mostly in oil and gas. We increased the proportion
0:15.8	of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses
0:20.6	from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023.
0:25.8	BP.com slash and not all. Hello and welcome to the political party. Today's guest is James Frith, the
0:46.8	Labour MP for Berry North. You may remember he was on the election series.
0:50.6	He'd been in the MP for Berry North in 2017, lost the seat in 2019, he lost by about
0:56.7	100 votes, it was Labour's most marginal target seats and he won it with a majority much bigger than a hundred.
1:05.0	One into the thousands just a few weeks ago.
1:08.0	I'll come to James in the second bit, thank you to all of you have been seeing at the Edinburgh Festival.
1:11.0	It's just so good to be back and it feels really incredible actually to be back so soon after
1:16.4	everything that happened and oh man it just feels so invigorating there are periods in your life obviously if you go through something different It just
1:25.0	get back to the periods in your life.
1:24.0	Obviously if you go through something difficult where you have to focus on that but it's so nice to get beyond that and then just get back to the things that you do,
1:30.0	the things you want to be defined by your career and the things you create
1:34.6	and you know I'm very lucky to have a line of work that allows me to talk about the things that happen to me
1:39.1	But my God, it's just so good to be back in Edinburgh. So thank you if you've bought a ticket.
1:44.0	I'm recording three political parties while I'm up there. So I'm doing my stand-up show at the end of an era tour every night at 8 p.m. at the
1:50.0	Pleasant's courtyard. I've added four extra shows. So on the next few Fridays and
1:56.2	Saturdays I'll be doing shows at 11 o'clock as well. But I'm also recording three
2:01.3	live political parties.
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