'They've learnt from the end of Strictly when they give the results, they want to hang it out. '

Comedian Mark Steel - Mark Steel - tells how he heard from the hospital he was free of cancer.

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Could council losses prompt a change in plan for the government?

Mishal Husain asks Minister Andrew Griffith, who says they are going to keep delivering the plan but 'there is a lot we have to do'.

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Conservative success in some elections for regional mayors is a 'comfort blanket of consolation' for the party, elections expert Prof Sir John Curtice tells Mishal Husain.

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Is Rishi Sunak safe as Conservative leader?

⏳Are prospective rebels biding their time?

Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson discuss the election results and the fortunes of the PM on a bonus episode of The Today Podcast.

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'The government is potentially heading for quite a considerable defeat.'

Polling expert Prof Sir John Curtice discusses what the local election results could mean for a general election.

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The Greens have made overnight gains in councils around the country.

Amol Rajan asks the Greens co-leader Adrian Ramsay for his assessment of the party's performance in the English local council elections.

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'What evidence do you have, from the successive by-election defeats or the fact that you're potentially going to lose hundreds of council seats, that the problem is just messaging?'

Amol Rajan asks Conservative Party chair Richard Holden.

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Despite Labour's overnight council gains, did the party's stance on the Israel-Gaza conflict cause it political damage?

Labour's Campaign Coordinator Pat McFadden tells Amol Rajan 'there's no denying this is a factor in some parts of the country'.

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'Is their instinct to be loyal in defeat, or see the back of another Prime Minister?'

Political editor Chris Mason tells Amol Rajan he wonders how Conservative MPs will react to defeats across the country in the next 48 hours.

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'It is clearly the case that you damaged the Conservatives, isn't it?'

Nick Robinson questions Reform UK MP Lee Anderson - until recently Tory deputy chairman - as the party narrowly comes third in the Blackpool South by-election.

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There are reports of voters turning up to polling stations without ID or with the wrong type of ID.

Electoral Commission Chief Exe Vijay Rangarajan suggests these are 'teething problems' and will be evaluated when they have more data.

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Labour has lost control of Oldham Council in the elections but still remains the largest party.

Local Labour leader Arooj Shah says the conflict in Gaza is a factor but goes beyond that to toxic politics in the area.

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'Isn't it potentially a big danger for your party that actually the protest vote across the country is now splitting?'

Amol Rajan asks Lib Dem Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper, as local election results continue to come in.

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'One of the worst, if not the worst, Conservative performances in local government elections for the last 40 years.'

Elections guru Prof Sir John Curtice gives his verdict on the probable outcome of the English council elections.

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How does the Conservative defeat to Labour in the Blackpool South by-election stand in the record books?

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Psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, 'has shown promise' in reducing depression symptoms, according to a new study in The BMJ.

Former Home Office adviser Dr David Nutt argues psychedelics could fill the gap left by a lack of new drugs.

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'Do you worry we've got the wrong dynamic, that AI is going too fast, it's in the wrong hands?'

Amol Rajan asks the EU's Digital Chief Margrethe Vestager, after she launched a new investigation into Meta over the way it has dealt with political interference.

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'We should have been thinking about deepfakes earlier.'

Dame Wendy Hall, UN adviser on AI, tells Nick Robinson and Amol Rajan that it may now be too late to prevent interference in coming elections.

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