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zero carbon generation at edf energy.com slash helping Britain. Welcome to F.T. Politics, a weekly podcast on British politics from the Financial Times.

I'm Sebastian Payne and in this week's episode

we'll be discussing the state of the British economy after the Brexit vote and

dissecting the government's decision to build a third runway at Heathrow Airport.

I'm delighted to be joined by Janan Ganesh the FBI. to build a third runway at Heathrow Airport.

I'm delighted to be joined by Janan Ganesh, the FTS political columnist, Martin Wolf,

our chief economics commentator, plus two former Conservative Special Advisors,

Rupert Harrison, who was at the Treasury and now at Black Rock and Julian

Govey, who used to work at the Department for Transport.

Thank you all for joining.

So how is the British economy doing?

This week's there are some signs that it is bumping along relatively nicely

after June's vote to leave the EU. The latest GDP figures show that the economy

has grown by about 0.5% which was better than expected. There was also good news that Nissan is not only going to

build its new Kash-Kai model and his Sunland plan but also bring the X-Trail SUV

too. Plus Toyota announced it is committed to car building in the UK even if

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