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Andrew Callagher, Shaw & Partners, 621.

Yeah, just to wind the Makerfield thing up and the Starmer thing.

So out of the local elections, the Britain predicts has got a swing away from Labour of 20% to reform 13.5%, which means reform would end up with 41% of the vote, Labour 28% of the vote.

Although that doesn't, that was the other day.

And I can't help but think that the mood, the vibe, the impetus might be slightly different given the special one-off nature of this, but that's the way it plays anyway.

So Andy Burnham is no shoe-in.

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Now, if you've missed the football news, as in the World Cup, they've gone all Super Bowl this morning.

Halftime show for the first time ever, curated by Chris Martin, no less.

The focus is going to be on raising $100 million for the FIFA fund that helps kids get into education.

So with that in mind, Martin's joined up with the Muppets.

Cookies.

For purists, a little bit of angst around this.

The break's going to be 30 minutes to accommodate all of that.

Normally the break in football, of course, is 15 minutes.

Just before I leave the UK, they're lining up 4,000 police officers this weekend.

A couple of protests on.

One's the usual, you know, Israel v. Palestine thing.

The other's the FA Cup final, one of the largest protest deployments in decades.