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Podcast: The News Meeting
Episode: Join us for Trendy Live to make sense of the local election results
Description: Tortoise is hosting a special live edition of Trendy on Wednesday 8th May.Join hosts John Curtice and Rachel Wolf in the Tortoise newsroom for this special live recording of the podcast to make sense of the local elections being held on May 2nd in England and Wales. Most of the elections are for positions last contested in 2021. At that time Boris Johnson’s government was still enjoying a bounce in the polls thanks to the roll out of the COVID vaccines. Fast forward three years and the country is now seemingly in a very different po...