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The spiked podcast

The Reform surge: an English revolution

The spiked podcast

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Politics, News, Society & Culture, Government

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Sign up for a £1-a-month trial with Shopify and start selling today: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked  Brendan O’Neill, Fraser Myers and Georgina Mumford on the historic local elections, Labour’s wipeout in its heartlands and the Green Party’s phoney revolt.  Join us for the spiked summit, our biggest ever live event, on Saturday 27 June in Westminster. Get tickets: https://www.spiked-online.com/event/spiked-summit/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Beverley and this is my NHS story. I had to make regular journeys to my local

0:08.2

CDC of blood tests because I had lymphoma. I think it really helps to know that you've got

0:14.4

somewhere local. It was really a godsend. The government is opening new community diagnostic centres

0:19.7

with many already available 12 hours a day, seven days a week, so the NHS can be there for all of us when we need it.

0:25.2

Find your closest one at gov.uk slash NHS Fit for the Future, available Englandwide.

0:30.9

My name is Kathleen, and this is my NHS story.

0:34.4

Having a persistent cough is quite socially embarrassing, so I went to see a respiratory nurse

0:40.5

who sent me off for an x-ray at my local CDC, and they were offering Sunday appointments

0:45.2

and evening appointments, which was great. The government is opening new community diagnostic

0:49.3

centres, with many already available 12 hours a day, seven days a week, so the NHS can be there for all of us when we need it.

0:55.2

Find your closest one at gov.uk slash NHS fit for the future.

0:58.9

Available Englandwide.

1:00.2

The results are tough.

1:02.8

They are very tough.

1:04.1

This is a party that has run its course, failed to do its duty, which was to represent working people, and deserves to die.

1:11.6

And I think that's what we're witnessing, the slow death of the Labour Party.

1:14.6

The party membership, the MPs, they believe that they're failing because they haven't been progressive enough.

1:21.6

A party just completely gripped by delusion from top to bottom.

1:24.6

Complete reshaping of British politics in every way.

1:28.7

Hello and welcome to the Spike podcast.

1:31.4

I'm Georgina Mumford.

1:32.5

I'm delighted to be joined in the studio by Spike's deputy editor Fraser Meis.

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