Can Zack fight back?

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government · Oct 9, 2026 · 44m

Another by-election, another win for Andy Burnham - with the Greens defeated in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. Deltapoll's Joe Twyman joins the pod team to explore what the PM’s by-election double really tells us about his electoral prospects.

It was another bad day for Green leader Zack Polanski, who was already under pressure after a difficult conference in Brighton.

Kemi Badenoch, on the other, was all smiles in Birmingham - but does the Conservative party really have grounds for optimism?

Plus: How well are schools performing? A new IfG report has the answer.

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