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Hello and welcome to another edition of the Times Opinion Podcast.

My name is Tim Montgomery and we are in the middle of the general election special series of

podcast and today joining me are three columnists Matthew Paris Jenny Russell and Hugo Rifkind.

Between now and polling day we're in for some seriously sustained cross-dressing.

Labour and the Conservatives will be straining every sinew to show they're the opposite

of what everyone thought they were. This is entirely rational behavior. Weird as it may sound,

everyone knows labor has a heart and everyone knows the Tories have a head.

Everyone is worried labour has no head and the Tories have no heart. Each will be striving to persuade us that they do have the thing we were

worried that maybe they didn't. Following on from that nothing in this campaign

so far as turned out as most commentators including me betting

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