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Welcome to The Daily Tea with me Tim Stanley.

And me, Camilla Tominy. Tim, a seismic result for the Greens.

We've got to stop using the word seismic, extraordinary and unprecedented,

which seemed to apply to all news events of recent weeks.

However, waking up to a Zach Polanski victory this morning,

we're both working from home, which is why the podcast looks a little bit different.

Your initial reactions, I'm not that surprised. I think we basically called this.

We did. And on the ground, there were so many green posters and their campaign were so whipped up that

I guess we all sort of knew they were going to do well. I don't think the word seismic is wrong.

This is the best result in a by-election that the Green Party has ever had. Its leader is now saying

it could go on to win a hundred seats of the next election. Well, we'll dig

into how realistic that really is. There's a case for saying we've been here before. We've seen

other Muslim dominated seats in by-elections in the past, giving a bruising to labor. But right now,

the prime minister must feel very uncomfortable because he made an effort to come to

this seat, which suggested that he had some hope that he might win it. And he has always argued,

I am the only way to beat reform. And it turns out voters do have an alternative. Let's have a look at

the results. Because as you say, everyone was saying it was too close to call.

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