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Hello. Well, it is recess this week.

So MPs are back at home in their constituencies, catching up on constituency business, popping up many of them to make a field to do a bit of campaigning. And we thought this week would be a good time to answer some of your questions. Remember that if you do want to get in touch with us, you can always email us on Politics Weekly UK at the Guardian.com and we'll

endeavour to get through as many of them as we can. We love hearing from you. Let's start off with

something that people have been emailing us quite a lot about recently and that is the State of the

Labour Party and Kirstarmer's leadership and the upcoming by-election in Makefield, all of which

are of course tied together.

Pippa, as you say, there's going to be a lot of Labour MPs traipsing up to Makefield over the next few days.

The polls there are fascinating.

It very clearly is a two-horse race with Labour and Reform way ahead of all the other parties, but on a knife edge between the two of them, really

interestingly, if there is any kind of split in either side of that vote, either on the

progressive side or the right side, the progressives maybe with the Greens just getting a few

percentage points here and there, or on the right of politics, interestingly, we're seeing

restore the kind of really hard right party that split off from reform also doing well.

That could have a huge impact not only on that by-election, but on who becomes prime minister.

Yeah, but it's worth saying, of course, that they are still in single figures of percentage

points compared to labour and

reform who are both up there fighting over 30, 40% of the vote each. But they could, as you say,

eaten to reforms vote. And I think what's really interesting is that despite the data in front

of us, the polling that's been done on this constituency. Constituency polls are

really hard to do. But even if you look at how well reform did during the local elections a couple of

weeks ago, winning eight wards across the whole Wiggin constituency, and indeed, if you look at how

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