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Learn more at city.com slash we are city. City. A weekly discussion on what's happening in Westminster from the Financial Times.

I'm Sebastian Payne.

Before we begin, we have some news.

Your UK politics podcast is going to become the FT election countdown for the next few weeks.

We'll be discussing what's going on in the campaign for all the parties every Saturday,

but we're also going to be offering you some special bonus episodes,

so look out for them in your feed.

But in this week's episode we'll be discussing the beginning of the UK's election campaign,

the shaky start for the Conservative Party,

the party's hopes of gaining seats in the North,

and the pack that

Remainers hope will win them more seats in the next parliament.

Plus we'll be dealing into all the spending promises by the Conservatives and

Labour and how they're tearing up the fiscal rules in hope of winning over new voters.

I'm delighted to be joined by our political editor George Parker, Chief Political Correspondent Jim

Picard, Economics Editor Chris Jows and Deputy Opinion Editor Miranda Green.

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