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Hello, Chris.

Hi.

I hope you've got a new toothbrush because there's going to be a new by-election.

We know what happened the last time you covered one?

Yeah, the toothbrush got covered as well.

Yeah, I did get a new tooth of the bush eventually there.

But yeah, there's going to be another by election

in Blackpool South.

Scott Benton, the former Conservative MP, has decided to pack it in.

He was already the subject of one of these recall petitions where people get to choose whether or not they want to buy election.

There was a bit of a moment he had in the

company of some reporters from the Times who we thought were actually from a

gambling company which turned out to be fictitious offering to pay him he was

talking about asking questions in parliaments and

getting older confidential papers and the whole thing's rattled on for ages but

actually he's packing it in he's left the House of Commons which means and

this is the crucial bit the by election can actually happen if the Conservative

to get a shuffle on, which they will, at the beginning of May.

In other words, on the same day as those local elections and mayor elections and police and

crime commissioner elections, and as opposed to that meaning that people like me go and spend

the evening in Blackpool and that becomes news all on its own it'll happen on the same day as all of those other

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