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Tees and sees apply. Check the Uber app. Hello and the New Statesman podcast, I'm deputy editor Helen Lewis and this week I'll be talking about

two very bad polls for labour with Raphael Bear and George Eton.

In Stedman and I will talk about the end of the International Space Station

and our new recruit John

Elage joins us to talk about London's housing problem. With a little bit over a week to go until the European and local elections, it's been a tough week for labour.

They've slipped behind in two polls that have been out recently this week, and I'm going to talk a little bit about that

with Raff Albert, our political editor and George Eaton editor of the Staggers.

Raff, how bad is it for Labour? I think it's quite bad, not because this this is there's some sudden change in

labour's position there's one poll and you know obviously you've had poll subsequently

sharing labour with a lead again but it very much confirms that a trajectory of narrowing, it was inevitable

at some stage that because it's all slightly within the margin of error now and broadly speaking

the two parties

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