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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud, where each week we choose some of our favourite pieces from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud.

I'm Patrick Gibbons and on this week's podcast, as Labor's Deputy Leadership Contest comes down to Bridget Philipson versus Lucy Powell, James Heel reports on the Battle for the North.

Robert Hardman, whose new book, Charles III, The Inside Story, is out now, reads his royal notebook.

Francis Pike asks, who's really in charge of China?

Henrietta Harding spots the Manjaro mummies at the school gates as she goes on a Zempic Safari,

in a reading voiced by one of our producers.

And finally, Mary Wakefield explains how to raise a patriot.

Up first, James Heel. When Labour MPs met to hear from their leader on Monday, there was one

group who felt particularly aggrieved. In the government's reshuffle following the resignation of Angela

Rainer, the party's powerful Northwest Caucus had suffered a machine gunning like nothing else,

in the words of a senior party official. Some 40% of the reshuffle casualties are from this region. The change is risked, in the words of One Aid, reopening the whole Keir and Andy psychodrama. Within hours, Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, had duly attacked Keir Stammer's new London-centric line-up. Lucy Powell, a close Burnham ally, who was sacked as leader of the Commons,

announced that she was running to replace Rayna as Labour's deputy leader. Project Philipson, the Education Secretary, has been drafted as number ten's preferred candidates. The race provides a litmus test of internal party opinion. How many people want to be unhelpful to Kier? asked the loyalist MP. It seems the answer is a lot. The Labour Party has always been an easy coalition of factions, blocks and interest, which chagery plays its part. Wales and Scotland have been traditional power bases, and devolution has created new ones for Burnham and others in the north of England. One risk for Starma is that, like Richard Sunak before him, new caucuses spring up and entrenched party divisions. This week's launch of mainstream, a Burnham-backed soft-left group is viewed with suspicion by some loyal to the Sturma project, who fear it amounts to a Burnham leadership vehicle. A string of bad poles is only exacerbating Labour tensions. More than the third of the refreshed cabinet are on course to lose their seats to reform UK at the next election, including Philipsum. Their uncorn by-election in May was a preview for forthcoming electoral battles throughout this Parliament. Nigel Farage's party seized the former Labour stronghold by just six votes. In recent months, reform has spread northwards. There are now more than 200 branch officers across the north-west and in excess of 150 in the northeast and north Yorkshire.

Reform strategists believe Lancashire, Doncaster and County Durham are right for growth.

Much like Harold Wilson, Labour's greatest northern politician, Farage enjoys plotting maneuvers while

puffing on his pipe early in the morning. He believes that in 2029, he can forge a similar

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