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Welcome to F.T. election countdown, your regular update on the UK's impending general election

countdown, your regular update on the UK's impending general election from the

Financial Times. I'm Sebastian Payne. As you might have guessed, our regular

politics podcast has become the election countdown for the next few weeks as we guide you through

the highs, lows and cantors of the campaign. In this episode we'll be dissecting a

week of campaigning for the Tories with Boris Johnson's first major speech and some

policy announcements in the Midlands, Labour's free broadband giveaway, the Liberal Democrats

efforts to make headway on the ground and the big dynamics facing the Brexit Party.

I'm delighted to be joined by our chief political correspondent Jim Picard, columnist Robert Shrimsley,

deputy opinion editor Miranda Green and political correspondent Laura Hughes.

Thank you all for joining and if you

find yourself liking this episode of the FT election countdown then do

subscribe to all the usual channels to receive it every Saturday morning. We also

appreciate a positive review. The UK's election campaign

ended its first full week on the ground on a bit of a dry note. The polls show the

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