The world is becoming increasingly complex and volatile.

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I'm Richard Engle.

And I'm Yalda Heikim.

And we're the top international correspondents at NBC News and Sky News.

And we present Sky News's latest podcast, The World.

Each week will cut through the noise to guide you through the week's global events

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Hello, I'm Adam Bolton and welcome to the All-Out Politics podcast.

Joining me this week are Sky News political correspondent Lewis Goodall and the head of Sky Data, Harry Carr.

We're going to talk about the key general election battle and battlegrounds,

the French presidential elections, which are, of

course, between the first and second rounds, and we'll discuss whether what's going on in politics

in Europe and in America perhaps spells the death knoll for populism.

I always find when we talk about election statistics that it helps to just put in your

control sample, if you like.

So just to remind everybody, at the general election in 2015, David Cameron's

Conservatives got 330 seats. Labour got 232.

The SNP became the third largest party with 56 seats.

That was all but three in Scotland.

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