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Burnham's By-Election Blues

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Show Notes

Nick Luck, Neil Channing and Will Kedjanyi round-up the betting markets' reaction to the turbulent events of the last seven days, including the Gorton and Denton by-election, the Burnham hokey-cokey, and Jenrick et al defecting from the Tories. Plus, Neil storms in at the end of the episode with a whopping 33/1 bet and why is he doing a reverse ferret on Reform?

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