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Welcome to Political Thinking with Nick Robinson.

After a week when the public finally got to grips with the politicians,

and in particular, the Prime Minister herself.

I could have stayed on doing that job for another couple of years

and you called the election.

You're a party called the European referendum.

You're a party called the good of the Conservative Party.

You've called a general election for the good of the Conservative Party

and it's going to backfire on you.

Was he right?

Yes, we're in what the greatest football manager of all time called squeaky bum time.

And we'll hear from two people who know just what that's like.

A former Tory party chairman and someone who ran Labour's election campaign last time.

And our algorithms becoming the new campaign strategist.

People talk now about the likes of Linton Crosby and you know in the future

it's going to be you know robot Crosby that's deciding all these things.

And why do some polls tell us we're heading for a hung parliament?

When others say we're heading for a massive Conservative win.

Yes, this was the week when those polls shaped the national conversation.

You would have talks, would you not?

You would talk with Jeremy Corbyn, there'd be talks with Labour party.

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