Welcome to FT Election Countdown, a regular update on the UK's general election from the Financial Times. I'm Sebastian Payne. We enter

the third week of the general election campaign and it's been a tricky one for

the Labour Party. We'll be digging into Jeremy Corbyn's difficult interviews, his issues with anti-semitism,

his efforts to turn the campaign on to trade talks, plus we'll be listening to some reports from the trail

about how it's gone with the Liberal Democrat in London and Labour in Heartland

England. I'm delighted to be joined by our columnist Robert Shrimsney, Deputy P

Ed to Miranda Green, Chief Political Correspondent Jim Picard, and you have editor

Ben Hall.

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Week three of the UK general election campaign has been not a particularly positive one

for the Opposition Labour Party. It began with opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn in

a racism row. The party tried to bounce back from a very difficult TV

interview with some leaked health documents about what would happen to the

NHS under a trade deal with Donald

Trump. Then in the middle of the week we had a big U-Gove poll that suggested the

Conservatives might be on course for a healthy majority after all. Following that

everyone had to recalibrate

their strategies and decide what to do next. So Robert Shimsley, let's begin with

labour. A lot happened this week, but generally the theme has been a difficult one

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