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Political Fix

Election week four: Boris Johnson dodges the BBC, Labour’s minority government plans, more reports from the stump

Political Fix

Financial Times

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The last full week of the UK’s election campaign was dominated by Boris Johnson’s failure to turn up to an interview with Andrew Neil, yet another anti-Semitism row in Labour and the Brexit party descending into more infighting. We analyse all the latest developments, plus we discuss our exclusive interview with John McDonnell and what is happening on the campaign trail in Kensington and Peterborough. Presented by Sebastian Payne, with Miranda Green, Robert Shrimsley, George Parker, Jim Pickard and Laura Hughes. Produced by Anna Dedhar and Eoin McSweeney.

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Welcome to F.T. election countdown.

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Your regular update on the UK's impending general election from the Financial Times.

0:44.2

I'm Sebastian Payne.

0:45.9

In this week's episode, we'll be talking about the third week of the campaign, covering

0:50.4

the row between the Conservative parties and the BBC, Donald Trump's visit to the UK,

0:55.2

the Brexit Party standing down more candidates, Jeremy Corbyn's latest trawails from anti-Semitism

1:00.4

and our interview with John McDonnell. Plus we'll be hearing more reports from the road to see how the campaign is going in key

1:06.6

marginal seats of Peterborough and Kensington.

1:09.1

I'm delighted to be joined by our political editor George Parker, columnist Robert Shimsley, deputy opinion

1:14.4

editor Miranda Green, Chief Political Correspondent Jim Picard and Political Correspondent Laura Hughes.

1:19.6

Thank you all for joining.

1:21.2

And if you find yourself liking this episode of FT election

1:23.8

countdown then do subscribe to receive it through all the usual channels and we

1:27.7

also appreciate a nice review. So the election campaign rode into its final week and it was a busy one.

1:35.5

We had the native summit where Storm Donald Trump came into the UK and left without too much trace.

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