You know that guy I've been seeing?

Yeah.

Turns out my sister's been seeing him too.

Oh, really?

And I heard he's been seeing Kelly at number 56.

And Dave?

Your brother?

Yep.

Speck savers opticians and audiologists own their stores,

so your care is their business,

which can make them rather popular. I've got something to tell you. I've got half an hour with

him this afternoon. Spexavers, your care is our business. Welcome to FT Politics, a weekly podcast on British politics from the Financial Times.

I'm Sebastian Payne and in this week's episode we'll be discussing

the surprise by-election result in Richmond Park and UKIP's new leader and its prospects

of the party renewing itself. I'm delighted to be joined by George Parker, the F.T.'s political editor, chief political

correspondent Jim Picard, plus political commentator Miranda Green and Marcus Roberts from

UGov. Thank you all for joining. So it's been by-election season in

Britain again and in the leafy London suburb of Richmond Park there's been a

surprising victory by the Liberal Democrats in a by-election that was notiony meant to be about Heathrow, but actually became about Brexit,

the incumbent Maverick Tori Zach Gosewith was rejected by the electorate and replaced by Romainer Sarah only.

Everyone is croaking this is a great big moan for British politics.

The 48% are fighting back, but what actual effect will it have on Article 50 or even

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