Can Zack fight back?

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.

Hosted by Hannah White.

With Cath Haddon, Thomas Pope and Amber Dellar.

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