One way or another we must proceed straight to an election.

Ready for an election, we're going to go out there with a very strong message.

What we've asked for is an early election that this goes back to the people.

We put forward a plan for a general election that would make sure that we had no deal off the

table.

While it's on, it is happening happy Christmas election Britain.

Hello about the Red Box politics podcast and the Times, I'm Matt Chorley.

Jeremy Corbyn has agreed to back every other party in supporting a general election in December.

So it's perfect timing for us to assemble a crack panel of experts to try and cast a critical eye over what might happen in the polling and who exactly is going to be running the election campaigns as they unfold.

Gabriel Milland, a former government communications chief in our partner a consultancy public first.

We'll explain what it's like working with Dominic Cummings and discuss whether PM's closest

advisor is a genius or a menace. Times columnist Rachel Sylvester takes a look inside the psycho drama in

team Corbyn, but first this is what you really want to know. You go to Anthony Wales on how

Boris Johnson's election gamble might not pay off.

Most of the polls of the Conservatives are double-digit leading voting intention.

Surely that translates into a healthy Conservative majority,

just like that big Conservative leading the polls before the last general election did.

Just in case you haven't learned not to be too complacent about elections, it could go terribly wrong for

the Tories.

So let's deal with the obvious. Why should we trust

polls? You shouldn't trust us blindly. I mean we have occasionally got it wrong in the

past. Have you changed your thing since last time to make it more likely that you'll be right? the there is lots of elaborate turnout adjustments that assumed young people wouldn't vote and

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