Lewis Goodall

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For those watching, no, it's not about me.

What you just heard was the sound of politics in Birmingham in 2026.

And what you're about to hear in today's special local and national elections episode

is how, in so many ways, culturally, politically, economically, socially, the politics of Birmingham in 2026, we think is so likely to be coming for the politics near you, for the national politics of the UK.

Welcome to The News Agents.

So we're talking about chaos in Birmingham for a very good reason.

Or are they not just Birmingham?

Because as important as Birmingham is, the biggest local authority in the country, huge city and so on, the reason that it really matters in terms of the potential politics in Britain to come is that Birmingham is a microcosm of the politics of Britain to come.

Birmingham is huge and it's deeply diverse.

And as a result, it has every shade, every characteristic, every combination of politics that the rest of the country has in aggregate.

So you've got the classic Labour-Tory areas, you've got Labour-Lib Dem, you've got the rise of the Greens, you've got reform as well at the outer edges.

And you've also got increasingly, particularly in the city, Muslim areas.

You've got the rise of these so-called Gaza independents.

what some people call the rise of a sectarian force in British politics.

And you've got all of that, basically a four, five, in some places even six-party contest, all being funnelled, as it will be in the general election to come, through the kind of weird machine

voting machine that is first past the post.

And you know what you get when you get four, five, six party contests in individual wards or individual consistencies?

You get that chaos.

And it's a good microcosm for another reason, which is this is a city which has been Labour run for a long time now, over 10 years, and it is widely perceived for lots of reasons you might be familiar with, bin strikes,