Get ready for a pub brawl, it's local election time

准备迎接酒吧斗殴,地方选举时节到了。

World in 10

2026-04-08

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As Reform rolls its tanks onto Labour’s lawn across the old Red Wall and the Greens set their sights on London, Starmer braces for a bruising set of local elections. Has David Lammy given up on London? And Steve reveals Reform's antagonistic campaigning slogan... Meanwhile, with the economic toll from the Iranian conflict unfolding, we explain how it might take Gabriel a little longer to find his daily packet of Quavers. Steven Swinford, political editor, The Times Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall editor, The Sunday Times Lara Spirit, deputy political editor, The Sunday Times Producers: Euan Dawtrey, Harry Kitson Executive producer: Molly Guinness Picture credit: Getty Images This podcast was brought to you thanks to subscribers of The Times and The Sunday Times. To enjoy unlimited digital access to all our journalism subscribe here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • It's a massive conflict between industry innovation and the reality of the NHS budgets.

  • Yeah, it 's a fascinating topic and the NHS has done its job of getting extremely cheap drugs and then President Trump

  • has done his job of saying, but hang on, you 're free riding on all of our research money

  • and marrying that tension has been really hard.

  • This is something that I think we'll be looking into on the day.

  • Yeah, it's going to be really interesting to hear from our speakers like Patrick Vallance and Melanie Iverson.

  • Everyone listening it 's it 's already a heavily subscribed event we 've got over 200 of the best in the sector

  • signed up to join us i'm definitely looking forward to tackling those tough conversations though and having a real look

  • at what 's happening across the sector yeah look i mean obviously go to the times.

  • com forward slash events to find out more in the early hours of the 8th of may we are going to witness Another,

  • even bigger, more dramatic political earthquake when reform achieved results in Sunderland

  • and elsewhere that nobody can yet believe.

  • Potential nightmare for Keir Starmer is this.

  • While Labour come third in Scotland, third in Wales,

  • they lose control of Barnsley and Sunderland and places like that to reform,

  • and they lose significant seats in London to the green.

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  • welcome to the state of it the political podcast from the times and the sunday times i'm stephen swinford the political editor