Just two days to go, nearly there everyone. Welcome to episode 25 of Calling Peston, the podcast

that is desperately hoping no one has secretly recorded our private conversations. I'm Daniel

Hewitt. I'm delighted to say that that is Shehab Khan and as ever Robert Pestan will be joining

us on the phone. With less than

48 hours to go until polling day, we'll be whizzing across the country speaking to our team

of reporters following the main political parties. Paul Brand is with the Tories, Libby Vina is following

Labour, Rachel Younger is on the Lib Dembus and Emma Murphy has been with the Brexit party. But first, Chehab,

take it away. Well, the big story of the day is that a recording has emerged of a phone call

in which Labor's shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, is heard criticizing Jeremy Corbyn and saying

he doesn't think that Labor will win the election. Ashworth has said it was just banter with a friend and he was just joking around.

In the final days of campaigning, Labor and the Tories are trying to focus on key messages

around the NHS and Brexit, while the Lib Dems have unveiled a new van with a stop Brexit advert

on its side, which they'll be driving around their target seats for the next

couple of days. Super. Thank you, Sheehab. And I've stopped saying 60 second roundup because

having gone back and listened to them, they vary drastically in time. Between 10 seconds and

about a minute and a half. So just take it away. Do what you need to do. We never timed it,

not once. And even on the first

time when you said 60 seconds, I turned to you and said, was that 60 seconds? And your response was

probably? Probably, I don't know. Lewis, you should really be. I'm counting it in my head. 60

seconds every time. Spot on. We'd know otherwise would be. You'd be giving it. I'll tell you to do it again.

He is a good producer, isn't your producer, Lewis? I sent a tweet out earlier to our many listeners

to ask them what their preparations are for election nights. How do you get through election night?

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