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Hi, this is Pod Save the UK.

I'm Coco Kahn.

So Cody is helping me out while Nish is away this week.

He was so good when he joined us on the show a few weeks ago that, of course, our fans wanted to see more of him.

And how better to introduce you than your very own hot take on Starmer's Woes.

Well, listen, we love, you know, you don't pull any punches and that's what we're here for.

We don't want to be too London Century.

On the M1?

Yeah, that's big.

First up today, by-elections don't normally dominate the headlines, but the upcoming vote in Gorton and Denton next week is getting a lot of attention.

It's being seen as a test of how badly Labour will lose and how effective reform support is.

But someone is trying to challenge that.

Hannah joins us now.

Welcome to Pod Save the UK, Hannah.

Hi, thank you so much for having me.

So normally I co-host with the lovely Nish Kumar, who's away, hence the lovely Cody.

And I was thinking to myself, it's probably good that Nish isn't here because he would almost certainly want to open this up with some turd-based humour, something to do with reform and flushing turds.