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I'm Helen Lewis, Deputy Editor of the New Statesman, and you're joining us for a small,

special miniature podcast about the local elections, which happened on Thursday, May 2nd. I'm joined by our political editor

and the editor of the Staggas George Eaton to look ahead to the exciting

cornucopia of statistics that will be the local elections. George first of all

outline how many elections why should we care?

Well you've got the County Council elections you've also got the South Shields by election

on the same day caused by David Millerband's departure to New York.

The reason they're interesting, I mean,

the biggest electoral test for the parties this year,

and it's a test for the Tories how many how many seats are they going to lose

they are going to lose seats because the last time these elections were fought in

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