This is the Guardian.

Two by-elections are about to take place that will tell us a lot about the immediate future

of the government and the opposition. So we're on the road again.

Our first stop is in the west country and the formerly ultra-safe Tory seat of Tibetan and

Honitan. I've been a lifelong conservator. They just liars me. You know they treat the general

public with his stain. A lot of people here are angry not least about Boris Johnson

and the Lib Dems think they might just pull off one of the biggest upsets in electoral history.

In Yorkshire, Keir Starmer and his party are in the midst of a massive push to retake Wakefield

which the Tories took off them in 2019. It's been there before lots of years before then so we'll

have Labour back. What we quickly discover in both places is that things aren't nearly as simple

as they might seem. I'm John Harris and you'll listen to Politics Weekly UK for the Guardian.

I'm back on the road again with this podcast producer Maz in the very large

constituency of Tibetan and Honitan or specifically Tibetan itself. When Neil Parrish resigned his seat

after watching pornography on his phone in the House of Commons Chamber. It's a solid west

country market town. Probably had a cattle market. It might still have one. Everyone comes in

for the surrounding villages to meet each other and do the shopping and there's quite a sort of

civic sentiment that this is a bit of power and influence locally. It's got a very big church.

We may be in middle England. No, he's not quite so middle. As ever, some of the story unfolds as

we chew it over in the car. Generally want to know what the policies are going to be that swing

are conservative to elevator. Oh, I don't think that's about policy. What is it?

I don't think you'll hear people saying with their newly introduced windfall tax, I think that's

always a newly on the side of working people like me. No, but nobody does that. I bet you we're

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