The end of the Labour party as a going concern in electoral politics?

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  Welcome to a bonus episode of The State of This.

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  We're coming to you this morning in the wake of the Gawson and Denton by-election,

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  which I think on any measure is catastrophic for Keir Starmer.

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  His leadership was already on the rocks.

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  This result,

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  which has seen Labour finish third in a seat that was one of the safest held in the country,

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  is devastating.

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  And I think we're going to get loads of questions about what happens to Starmer next.

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  Is this the end?

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  May not be today, maybe the future.

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  Is he now a prisoner of the less?

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  And more broadly, this is tectonic.

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  It is a realignment of the kind of electoral state of Britain.

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  The duopoly is gone of Labour and the Tories, and we now have five parties vying for contention.

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  So look, with me this morning, we've got Patrick Maguire,

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  the chief political accommodator at the Times,

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  and Gabriel Pogrand of the Sunday Times, both utterly brilliant.

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  Patrick, do you want to kick us off?

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  How bad is it?

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  Look, this is...

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