Introduction

There's a month to go until local elections in 230 councils across England. Most of the seats in play were last contested in 2019, when the Conservatives lost more than 1000 council seats. Today I'm joined by James Butler, one of the founders of Navarro Media and a now contributing editor at the LRB. His most recent piece for the paper was on the UK's care crisis and we'll be talking about that a bit. They're also surveying the very sorry states of British politics more broadly.