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I'm Sebastian Payne and we're here with your mini midweek update to look at the

state of the election campaign.

From our office in the House of Commons, I'm joined by George Parker, the

F.T.'s political editor, James Blitz, our Whitehall editor, and Laura Hughes

political correspondent. Thank you all for joining. So let's begin by looking at

where the campaign is for the Conservative Party, George, because we're now

ten days out from Election Day, and there's a couple of nerves at the top of the Tory Party

now because they're comfortably ahead in the pose about 10 points according to the

F. T's poll of pose but the party still fearful of what happened in 2017

concerned that some things could blow it off course. Yes that's right we're into the

final full week of the campaign and as you say the Conservatives have a lead which would give

them a comfortable House of Commons majority according to the FT poll tracker.

Some opinion polls putting that lead slightly less than 10% and of course the key thing

to look out for here is the gap between the Tories and Labour if it gets down below

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