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I'm Pippa Carrera.

And I'm Kieran Stacey.

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Hello, it's just me today as Kieran is taking a much earned break before next week when it will all be laser focused on the local

and devolved elections and the fallout from them. So with that in mind, we thought that this

week we'd bring back election analyst and friend of the podcast, Professor Rob Ford, to talk

through what we might see from all those elections across the UK next Thursday. Hello, Rob.

Hello. So Rob, before we get into some of the details, I want to talk

about the broader picture. And first of all, the shift away from the two-party system that we've

seen, how do you think that's likely to play out at the local elections? Well, I mean, Pippa,

I think it's probably the biggest story of the local elections in England, because when you

think about the political context we had when

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