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Hello, welcome to the new European podcast. My name's Richard Porre and I'm joined by Steve Anglesey.

Hello, Snowflakes. How are you, Steve? I am well. It's been an exciting week in politics.

Another exciting general election week. We will do the news, of course, because we know full well,

because you tell us all the time, that a lot of you just come here for your news. Don't watch the BBC.

Don't read any of the papers apart from hours. You here for your breaking news so we will get to

that shortly and then we will crown a brex to the week as usual won't we steith we will indeed

so where do we start tories well should we start with the well i mean the tories are up in the

polls they are just we said last week there was some signs that the polls were turning for labour that's

proved not to have carried on well i mean that's fairly um common isn't it for the for the

opposition party to have a little spike in the polls when they start to get more coverage when they

start to get more um more scrutiny of the of the incumbent um So that was to be expected.

And I think we saw a sharper rise in Labour's polls on the first weekend after campaigning.

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