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Hey Jess, Jess, Jess. So can you tell me what's going on with the local election
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Oh, hey, Emmanuel. Glad you asked. So they're taking place next month on May 2nd
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Councils up and down England will be voting for local councillors. Here in London, we won't
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be voting for councillors, but we'll have the London mayoral elections taking place. So Sadiq Khan will be trying to get a third term
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So how can I vote? Great question. So you'd need to register to vote online, so you can
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either be voting in person by post or with a proxy where you get someone else to vote for you
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I just go on your local council website and they'll have all the deadlines for you. What does this then mean for Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party
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So this is the last set of elections before we have the general election, which is anticipated later this year
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It's going to be quite a big test for Rishi Sunak. If he does particularly badly, people calling for him to resign
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or to be replaced as Prime Minister, or to call a general election even sooner
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So it's quite a crucial day for them. It's also important for Labour. They'll be hoping to do really well to set themselves up
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as they go into the general election campaign, which, as we know, they're widely anticipated to do well in as well
