There are just two more weeks until polling day in politics and eternity.

So Inside Briefing is back for another week of working out what is really going on.

I'm Bronwyn Maddox.

The party manifestos are out, or in the Brexit

party's case, what it calls, its contract with the people. Pages of promises, charts, an array of

fonts and photos that show off the very best of do-it-yourself publishing. So what do these documents

actually tell us about what a future government might do?

There's a lot of Brexit in there.

At least in the Conservatives, Labour's not quite so keen to talk about it.

But both manifestos make the next stage of the UK's negotiations with the EU sound easy.

Spoiler, it won't be.

We'll take a closer look.

There's a wall of money, too. This year is the battle of public spending, but who's really going to pay? And on that note, does telling the truth in politics

really matter anymore? That includes truth about numbers. We talk to Will Moy, the director of

full fact, the independent fact-checking outfit, about the challenge of keeping track of the claims and counterclaims and who is actually being straight with the voters.

On today's podcast, we've also got Giles Wilkes, an IFG senior fellow and a former advisor to Theresa May and Vince Cable.

Let me just ask you, your Twitter handle used to say you were recovering from your time in 10 Downing Street, and it doesn't anymore.

Have you recovered?

Yes, I mean, the recovery was several different aspects to it.

It's a shock turning on the TV and seeing your old, a much missed workplace, suddenly populated by a whole bunch of new people looking like they're throwing the furniture around and changing everything.

Particularly when a lot of friends are still there.

And the idea that these friends who were working very, very closely with are now having to

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