Nish Kumar

Matt Goodwin is a deeply unpleasant character who said a number of inflammatory things, and I think most notably in 2025 after a train stabbing in Cambridgeshire, Goodwin posted that mass uncontrolled immigration was to blame.

When someone responded that the suspect was born in the UK, Goodwin replied, so were all the 7-7 bombers.

It takes more than a piece of paper to make somebody British.

And he has, this week when questioned, stood by those remarks.

It's unclear who Matt Goodwin believes is the ultimate arbiter of Britishness, but it seems to be himself.

I do genuinely believe there has been

in the kind of last decade, a regression in this country's conversation about race.

And somebody having those views, standing as a candidate right now, is pretty uncomplicated evidence that this country is being dragged backwards.

And I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Racism is a deeply unpleasant illness that afflicts a society, right?

And it's something that personally affects a lot of us on a day-to-day basis.

But it is also a superb distraction.

If white British people throw their lot behind...

These racists, they will find very quickly that they have absolutely no interest in improving the lives of the working class people of this country.

They are standing up for vested interests and they are hiding behind a cloak of prejudice.

Elsewhere in this by-election, which it's amazing how central it's become to the news in this country at the moment right now.

Andy Burnham, the Labour mayor of Manchester, otherwise known as the King of the North, threw his hat into the ring with many speculating that this could be the start of his path to number 10.

The Green Party is sort of flanking Labour from the left.

And I saw a story last week that polling data suggests that they're now the most popular party with under 30s.

And Zoe, Andy Burnham, as you said,