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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Helen MacNamara and Cleo Watson

In The Room | Farage’s scandal-hit conference and Burnham’s next big test

Reform Birmingham Westminster

Westminster is back, and so is conference season, beginning with Reform’s scandal-hit gathering in Birmingham.

This week, Helen and Cleo discuss whether Nigel Farage’s party still feels like a government-in-waiting after a bruising week, Green leader Zack Polanski’s Holborn and St Pancras by-election battle, and how Kemi’s big shiny reshuffle could revive the Conservatives.

New episodes of In The Room come out weekly. Listen to the latest on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or watch on YouTube.

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