Introducing FT Politics: UK Election Countdown
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 9 November 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
We have another FT podcast to share. With FT Politics: UK Election Countdown, you can keep up with the twists and turns of the December 12 poll.
The first week of the election did not go to plan for the Conservatives, as their campaign was beset by gaffes and mistakes. Can Boris Johnson get back on track? Is Labour pleased with how its campaign is going? Plus, the politics team delves into the new fiscal rules pledged by both parties and what the spending splurge means.
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| 0:00.0 | The F.T. News Briefing is supported by Equinor. The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at equinor.co. UK. |
| 0:09.7 | Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times. I'm Mark Filipino. Now the |
| 0:14.0 | F.T. news briefing doesn't normally have a show on Saturdays, but today we're |
| 0:17.7 | bringing you a bonus episode featuring one of our other podcasts. In the UK |
| 0:22.4 | this week, major parties kicked off their |
| 0:24.3 | campaign for the December 12th general election. You can catch up on the |
| 0:28.1 | twists and turns of this hotly contested campaign in the F.T. Politics UK |
| 0:32.4 | Election Countdown Podcast. You can subscribe wherever you get your |
| 0:36.0 | podcasts, but for now enjoy the show right here. Welcome to F.T. Politics, a weekly discussion on what's happening in Westminster from the Financial Times. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm Sebastian Payne. I'm delighted |
| 0:54.4 | to be joined by our political editor George Parker, Chief Political Correspondent |
| 0:57.6 | Jim Picard, Economics editor Chris Jows, and Deputy Opinion Editor |
| 1:01.4 | Miranda Green. Thank you all for joining. |
| 1:03.4 | So the general election campaign began this week |
| 1:06.5 | and it didn't particularly go too well for the Conservative Party. |
| 1:09.7 | While Boris Johnson was hoping to focus on his core message of getting Brexit done and his domestic |
| 1:14.6 | priorities, it was overshadowed by the resignation of the Welsh section, Alan Cairns, inept comments |
| 1:20.2 | by Jacob Reesmogg and Andrew Bridgin on Grand Fortau and the general sense that it's not |
| 1:24.7 | quite going as the Conservatives had hoped for. |
| 1:27.4 | So George Parker, if we look at the first week of the campaign and we say who's done the |
| 1:31.4 | best out of this, it's probably the Labour Party and all this, |
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