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I'm Sebastian Payne. In this week's episode, we'll be discussing the fallout from this week's

local elections and Theresa made's failure to sell her customs union plan.

I'm delighted to be joined by our political editor George Parker, White Hawk editor James

Blitz, Chief Political Correspondent Jim Picard, from Deputy Opinion Editor Miranda Green.

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Britain went to the polls this week for the latest round of local elections.

The results were something of a mixed lot.

Labour made some gains, but only one significant council pick up in Plymouth.

They failed to meet their own expectations of taking some of the Conservative

strongholds in London.

Elsewhere, we saw the total collapse of the UK Independence Party

and a surprising revival of the

Liberal Democrats. So what does this all tell us about the state of the country?

Well it seems that Britain is still in stalemate and there's little hope of any

parties making a big breakthrough in the near future.

Jim Picard, let's begin by just looking at the election results.

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