Hello my name is David Ronserman and this is Talking Politics.

I'm joined this week by Aaron Rapport, Mahal Rafi-Athal and Chris Bickerton.

We are eight days out from the British General Election and today is the day the circus

rolls into town, our town Cambridge.

Tonight is the leaders debate, though one leader we know won't be there to resume.

Jeremy Corbyn might because he thought he did well the other night with Jeremy Paxman,

so he's on a roll, keep going with it, but it's Wednesday morning the debates tonight,

we don't know.

We also don't know if they're going to let us in.

There was some hope that we might go to the spin room and talk to people about how they

saw the debate, maybe, but apparently we haven't got security clearance yet.

So by the time you hear this all of that will be known as of now it is unknown and we're

going to talk about something else.

This election has been very parochial I think, the interviews and audience questioning

of Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn on Monday night.

We just had a lot of coverage and analysis and I think most people feel that they each

did about as well as he'd expect them to do, but it was very domestic.

Yet this is the week where Angela Merkel said that America will no longer protect Europe.

No one thought to bring that up, which is quite surprising.

No one thought to us Theresa May whether she thought Donald Trump still protected Europe.

Let's try and put this in international perspective, Erin leaving aside the bridge election

for now and we'll come back to it.

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