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Hello and welcome to The Edition, the Spectator's weekly podcast discussing some of the most

important and interesting issues within our pages each week with the writers behind them.

I'm Cindy Yu. With two weeks to go until the election, the latest polling shows a majority of

68 for the Conservative Party. So can anything still trip

Boris Johnson up? One of those events could be Trump's visit next week, so how high are the stakes

there? And last, what led to the failure of the Israeli kibbutz? First up, James Seythe and

Katie Balls interviewed the Prime Minister for the magazine this week.

The Boris they found was optimistic, humorous and, above all, on message.

So can anything still trip him up in the final fortnight of the election campaign?

Katie speaks to James and Paul Goodman, editor of the Conservative Home website.

James, in this week's spectator, we interview Boris Johnson,

and his key message, apart from Get Brexit Done, which I think perhaps has landed now with listeners,

was about how this would be a different type of Conservative government to one we have seen previously.

Can you tell us about that message and whether or not it was a convincing one? Well, the most dramatic part of his message is how much

he distances himself from austerity. He says that, you know, in 2010 he was telling people

in that government that he didn't think austerity was the way forward for the UK. He says I don't

understand why they were taking an idea from

Stafford Cripps, the Labour Chancellor who continued rationing during the Attlee government

after the war. And he can have pointed out that Staff of Crips used to drink his own urine.

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