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Go to Spectator. UK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hello and welcome to Coffey House shots the Spectators Daily Politics

podcast I'm Kate Andrews and I'm joined by Katie balls and Fraser Nelson

today Kistama is in Sussex to give his first big election campaign speech.

Fraser, he's there to talk about the security of the country, a security sprint that he wants to implement,

but he's also there to reintroduce himself to the public.

Talk us through it.

Well, I'd probably say more introduce because now we're in the middle of the campaign

where the vast majority of the country who sadly don't listen to coffee house shots or tune into politics in general

will for the first time be asking themselves who is this guy what's he about so he feels it

very important to tell his story now if you had a pound for every time he said his dad was a toolmaker you'd

be quite rich by the end of the campaign. But today there was another aspect of his upbringing

which struck me. He was saying it was a rural upbringing. He was not a city boy. He was, he literally

shared a football pitch with cows and would play football until those cows came home. And at times actually sounded less like a Labour Party speech and more like a speech from the

countryside alliance.

Here's the next track that jumped out at me.

My first football club was Baltest athletic FC. I was very proud of this. We shared our home pitch

with the local cows, which may make something about the way I play football.

But not just the beauty or the football, also the sort of quiet, uncomplaining resilience, the togetherness of the countryside.

That is the best of British.

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