<p>You can watch this episode on YoutTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/5Zb71ekLVBE" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/5Zb71ekLVBE</a></p><br><p>This week on Planet Normal, your co-pilots of sanity, Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson, sift through the debris of a historic set of local elections that have left Sir Keir Starmer clinging to power.</p><br><p>The duo analyse the turquoise tsunami that saw Reform UK gain over 1,400 council seats, whilst the Prime Minister faces a precarious future after Labour’s vote share collapsed in traditional hubs like Birmingham and Cambridge.</p><br><p>Who is your co-pilots preferred replacement? Wes Streeting? Angela Rayner? ‘Mad’ Ed Miliband? Or does Andy Burnham stand the best chance with the softy Labour Left?</p><br><p>Return stowaway William Coulston joins your co-pilots to dissect the local election results, and where the Social Democrat Party stands on Welfare and why Labour's approach is bankrupting the country.</p><br><p><strong>Highlights:&nbsp;</strong></p><ul><li>Planet Normal: Is Starmer’s Labour drama as fleeting as Streeting?</li><li>Reform UK gains over 1,400 seats as the traditional two-party system fragments following the May 7th elections.</li><li>Streeting eyes the prize but is Andy Burnham waiting in the wings?</li></ul><p><br></p><br><p>Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest stories, every morning. <a href="http://telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor</a> |</p><p>Liam Halligan and Serge Kogan - London to Paris in 24 hours - ON A TANDEM: <a href="https://www.justgiving.com/page/liam-halligan-serge-kogan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.justgiving.com/page/liam-halligan-serge-kogan</a> |</p><p>Read Allison ‘Starmer quitting isn’t enough. Furious voters want an end to politics as we know it’:</p><p><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/12/allison-pearson-starmer-quitting-isnt-enough/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/12/allison-pearson-starmer-quitting-isnt-enough/</a> |</p><p>Read Allison ‘Sick of being dismissed as a racist, Essex Man has turned to Reform’:</p><p><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/08/essex-voters-embracing-reform-liked-nigel/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/08/essex-voters-embracing-reform-liked-nigel/</a> |</p><p>Read more from Allison: <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/</a> |&nbsp;</p><p>Read Liam ‘Oil prices are detached from reality’: <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/05/10/headline-oil-prices-are-detached-from-reality/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/05/10/headline-oil-prices-are-detached-from-reality/</a> |</p><p>Read more from Liam: <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/</a> |</p><p>Read Liam’s Substack: <a href="https://liamhalligan.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://liamhalligan.substack.com/</a> |</p><p>Need help subscribing or reviewing? Learn more about podcasts here:</p><p><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/podcasts/podcast-can-find-best-ones-listen/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/podcasts/podcast-can-find-best-ones-listen/</a> |</p><p>Email: [email protected] |</p><p>For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/normal" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/normal</a> |</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>