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18 or over. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast in The Times, I'm Matt Chorley.

Well, I've escaped the Westminster bubble again and this time headed north to Scotland to try and find

out what is really going on.

Are the SMP on the way

are the toys on the cusp of an historic breakthrough after years in the

political wilderness what future for labor north of the border and whither the Lib Downs as ever in this election

campaign.

My journey begins on an early morning flight from Southampton to Edinburgh as I go in search of some ordinary voters. I think Theresa May's no show has definitely had an effect on I mean whatever poll you decide to believe in

I think she probably thought it was maybe a foregone conclusion but I don't think it's going to be that it could be a

bit closer so now I've actually I've changed I'm not voting SMP I know that but I'm going between I was maybe conservative and maybe now I'm going over to

Labor. What are the issues for you that play out which way your vote? Okay so firstly I think obviously

the NHS is huge and education I'm fortunate that my sons are through that side of things. We definitely owe it to

them to provide something and the way that things are sounding at the moment it's

not looking too good for NHS I don't think.

My father always followed Labour so I went the same direction as him.

I am a supporter of Jeremy Corbin and I'm also a union rep at my place of employment.

So UZDA, support Labour government.

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