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Music the world around you. Hello and welcome to the political party.

This is a local elections, not on roundup, because we don't go into too many of the individual results, more an analysis of why this was such a bad set of results for Labour and the Tories, why it was so good for reform.

And what it means and what are the forces attracting people to reform?

What can Labor do to turn their fortunes around?

And this is with John McTurton, who was Tony Blair's political secretary, inside number 10.

He is a phenomenal political brain.

And this is just absolutely gripping from the start.

It's just class.

And his take on it all is fascinating.

Before we come to John and his words of wisdom, you may have seen, and if you haven't,

then I have that wonderful news. I have a new series starting on Radio 4 called the Matt Ford Focus Group.

It's been recorded in front of an audience and you can come. We're doing a run-through at the

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