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Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator, where each week we shed a little light on the thought process behind putting the world's oldest weekly magazine to bed.

I'm Laura Prendergars, the Spectator's executive editor.

And I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor.

This week, we'll be asking, what's Nigel Farage's game plan?

Has Marine Le Pen revived her fortunes? And could the era of

low-cost tourism be at its end?

Well, it's Wednesday afternoon. The magazine went to press at lunchtime today, and our cover

looks at the biggest election news of the week, which is that Nigel Farage announced he's

not only leading reform into the election, but also standing as a candidate in Clacton.

So how did we come up with this cover?

Well, obviously the news came rather

unexpectedly and I think around 4pm wasn't it on Monday afternoon. So we actually wanted to do a

cover this week that was not looking at the UK election because we sort of thought we've got quite

a long time still until people actually go to the polls. But then when Nigel Farage announced

that he was going to stand as a candidate and lead reform into the general election, it was too big not seduced to cover, really.

And I think our brilliant cover artist, Morton Moreland, has done this fantastic image which summarises the mood of it, rather, which is this figure of Farage, glass shattering as he's flying right in front of Rishi. I think that kind of is the

mood in Westminster, at least, this week. So we sort of had to do it as the cover. Katie Balls went off

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