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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, Spectatorators Daily and these days more than daily politics podcast.

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James Forsyth and James Morris, the former Labour pollster, now at Edelman.

So the papers today are filled with reaction and analysis of Nida Farage's decision to stand down candidates in 317 seats, 317 seats

at the Tories won in 2017. Now, listeners of the podcast will have heard James and I's

thoughts already, so I wonder, James, behaving a real mix, actually, particularly looking at what

pollsters are saying on this, how much of

impact this is going to have. I spoke to some on the Conservative campaign who ultimately

seem to have the take away message of is better than nothing, but it doesn't take them all

the way because Nigel Farage will still like these stand candidates in their target seats,

Labour Tory seats. Do you think that this is going to, what Nigel Farage will still like these stand candidates in their target seats, Labour Tory seats.

Do you think that this is going to, what Nigel Farage has already proposed, is going to

help the Tory party much in terms of getting a majority?

It's going to help a lot.

So before he made that announcement, in those seats they needed to hold, they needed to try and

pick up those Brexit Party voters.

As a result of this announcement, they don't have to compete up those Brexit party voters. As a result of this announcement,

they don't have to compete with the Brexit party for those voters anymore. Those voters have got a choice, which is a clear Brexit party, the Tories, or the Labour Party, which is not very clear

what its actual proposal with respect to Brexit is, but it's clearly not straight leave. So that

means there's a lot less effort

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