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Welcome to the London Review of Books podcast.

My name is Tom Crewe.

I'm an editor at the LRB and I also write for the paper,

most recently about the Corbyn phenomenon and the Labour Party.

I have here with me today Lorna Finlayson,

who teaches philosophy at the University of Essex

and has also written for the LRB about Corby and other aspects of British politics. Hello, Lorna.

Hi.

We're now two days away from the general election. All the polls show a tightening of the race between Labour and the Conservatives, though some polls show a much tighter race than others.

It's been a very unusual campaign in many ways,

not least because of the now two terrorist attacks that have taken place during the course of the campaign.

I've written in the LRB before about my skepticism over how Corby will perform in the election.

I'm not sure he can or will win, but Lorna, you've written

about the need to back Corby in the past. So what I thought we'd do to start was to go back

a year ago. We both wrote for the LRB around the same time about Corby during the second

leadership campaign. you in June,

me in August.

When I look at what I wrote, I think it was technically, it would have been in July last year.

It's something of a period piece, I think, because that leadership campaign now seems a long time ago.

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