Hello and welcome to Calling Peston, the brand new ITB News podcast that tells you everything you need to know about the 2019 general election every weekday until polling day.

With Daniel Hewitt, that's me, Shihab Khan.

That's me.

That's him.

And as the giant picture of his face on the podcast logo would correctly suggest our political editor, Robert Peston, who will be calling each and every day

for the most up-to-date political news and analysis.

Robert, are you excited?

I couldn't be more excited.

Are you pumped?

So I'm hoping to give what you might call news from the front line, but also a bit of an inside track. Some of the important

stuff that you won't get from normal TV, radio, newspaper reports. A bit also of my sort of

personal take on it all. And I think some of the information

that everybody will need to make up their minds who they're going to vote for. We will also be

bringing you insight from the whole ITV news politics team, giving you a flavour of what it's really

like covering what's bound to be one of the most fascinating general elections in British history.

We'll have some special guests.

Pick.

Not him, some actual special guests, some soon-to-be award-winning features, and you'll be getting everything you need to know about what Boris Johnson,

Jeremy Corbyn, Joe Swinson, and the rest of the gang are up to for the next five weeks.

This is the most important election.

Any of us have participated in for, I don't know, decades probably.

So from this Wednesday, right through to election night, this podcast will be available in all the usual places,

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