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Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots

the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Megan McElroy and I'm joined by Katie Bulls and Sonia Soda, chief leader writer and

columnist at the Observer. The election is now just days away. This is the last

full week of campaigning and before we get to July the 4th we thought we might look at the very

naughty issue of gender. So Katie how is this issue played out on the election

campaign so far? So bigger picture, Labour clearly looks

though they're doing very well. Yes, their vote share has dropped a bit during the

campaign but the Tories have not improved, hence they have less of a problem. But

I think if we look back over this six week campaign,

what are the areas where Kistama and his party

had been under the most pressure is on gender?

And then I think perhaps more punchy than anything Rishizunak himself has said,

you had JK Rolling, who we know has long been a campaigner in this,

right for the times, effectively saying that she is not sure she trust Kristama's judgment.

And parallel to this you have various stories coming out about what

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