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Jul 2023
1h 7m

By-electioncast

BBC News
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Labour 1, Lib Dems 1, Conservatives 1.

For this LIVE Newscast, Adam chats with some of our favourite BBC political correspondents and reporters, Alex Forsyth, Chris Mason, Nick Watt, Jeremy Vine, David Wallace Lockhart, Jenny Kumar and polling expert John Curtice to discuss the ins and outs of the overnight by-election results.

You can join our Newscast online community here: https://discord.gg/HKHAQAYKfK

Today's Newscast was hosted by Adam Fleming. It was made by Alex Collins and Hayley Clarke. The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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