This edition was recorded before America's attacks on Iran over the weekend.

Hello and welcome back to Oh God What Now, the politics podcast that will now stop knocking on your door every five minutes and asking if it can rely on your vote. It will leave you alone until the next general election, possibly. I'm Andrew Harrison. The dust is still settling after the Gorton and Denton by-election last Thursday. On Friday, we gave you a fast reaction to the results. Today, we're going to be taking a bit of a longer view of what it all means for each of the parties nationally.

Plus, the latest quarterly immigration figures are out. Asylum claims are down a little. Small boat arrivals are up 13% and the number of asylum seekers' house in hotels is down 19%. So it's a mixed message. But reform are promising a British ice

deportation command as a burning priority for an incoming reform government, according to self-styled

shadow home secretary Zia Yusuf. Do voters really want cut and paste Trumpism?

Here to talk over all this stuff, I've got our two dazed experts from Friday's edition. Ros Taylor writes for the New World, as well as numerous other titles, and presents more jam tomorrow. Hello, Ros. Hello. So it looks like the assisted dying bill is doomed. It's been effectively filibustered in the Lords. The government says it will allot no more time to the bill.

And according to the Telegraph, there are around 50 pro-assisted dying MPs who are going to put together, they're going to call for identical private members bills to increase the chances of

giving it another shot. I mean, the fact that it was blocked in the Lords is pretty outrageous.

Should they have to resort to chicanery like this?

No, but the British parliamentary system and the existence of the upper house and the

things that it's allowed to do and not allowed to do mean that they may well have to.

I mean, the Lords put down over a thousand amendments. Over a thousand.

I mean...

From about six Lords were responsible for the majority as well, weren't they?

Yeah, they were determined.

There were people absolutely determined to stop it.

You've got to bear in mind that while the lords has its backers and has its strengths,

it is fundamentally unelected.

And that is a problem.

Having said that, of course, this wasn't in the Labour manifesto. So that makes things more difficult. It may go through in the next session, but it's not certain because there are clearly deep, deep reservations and opposition to assisted dying among a lot of British politicians. And it isn't just in the Lords. It's also

people like Wes Streeting. I think West Streeting's opposition to the bill, which I think is largely

down to his Christian faith, but who knows how much is Christian faith, who knows how much is

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