alongside me, the broadcaster and writer charlie downs and the former adviser to jeremy corbyn, james schneiderngside me. good evening gents, and each and every single one of you are very welcome indeed to join the conversation indeed to join the conversation in all the usual ways. you can email me gb views @gbnews. com you can go to the website at gbnews.com/yoursay. of course you can tweet or you can x me settle down and get comfortable while we try and make sense, if we can, of what on earth is going on to help us along the way. our political editor, christopher hope joins me now. good evening. christopher. er, where do we even begin? bring the viewers up to speed, if you will. >> where we are right now is that the reform uk party, which is ahead in the polls, has lost a fifth of its mps in the house of commons. they had five mps. now they're down to four. that's because rupert lowe, one of their senior, one of the four mps, has had the whip suspended. he has lost the right to be a reform uk mp. he's the same as jeremy corbyn, if you like, in the house of commons. i'm sure james would like t