What is it they say about buses?

You wait far longer than you should and three come along at once.

That's the best analogy about the week we've had in the world of news.

The House Secretary was forced to resign.

England beat Germany so football is coming home and our labour have actually secured a victory in a

by-election. Three fairly rare events that we'll be talking about on today's podcast. I'm your host

Shehab Khan and I'll be joined as ever by ITV's political editor Robert Pestin and we have a special feature

this week from our political correspondent Libby Vina who is currently in Batley and Spent. Thank you both for joining us.

I want to quickly go to Libby first. Libby, have you been up all night waiting for that

result to come in? Well, most of the night, not all night. What was the mood like at the count

must have been a huge relief for Labour? Well, I think Labour actually thought they'd lost it.

Certainly that's what they were telling us. They didn't think they had the votes. I think Labour actually thought they'd lost it. Certainly that's what they were telling us.

They didn't think they had the votes. I think that's probably because they were looking at

how the votes were stacking up for George Galloway. He did take more than 8,000, which would

have traditionally gone to Labour. So they were extremely worried and enormously relieved this

morning when they found they'd won. You've been in the constituency for a few days. The campaign

and the reports that you've been filing, they demonstrate the campaign has been quite divisive. Have

you seen anything like it? Not really. I think it was pretty astonishing that Kim Ledbeter actually chose to

stand, given that her sister, Joe Cox, was murdered here five years ago by a right-wing terrorist.

I think most people would have been very concerned about their own safety in such circumstances.

And in fact, there was quite a lot of personal abuse held at her during the campaign.

And when we were following her round earlier this week, there was a police presence on the streets.

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