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Welcome to F.T. Politics, a weekly podcast on British politics from the Financial Times.

I'm George Parker, the F.T's political editor,

and this week we're going to be discussing the political fallout

of the Google Tax Saga, and also taking a look at whether Labour under Jeremy

Corbyn is losing touch with its working-class voters.

I'm delighted to be joined by John Gapper, our chief business commentator, and Vanessa Holder,

our tax correspondent to look at the implication of Google's

130 million-pound tax bill. Later we're here from Janan Ganesh, our political

commentator and Aiecesha Hazarika, a former advisor to Harriet Harmon and an expert on the Labour Party.

But first, was Google's 130 million pound tax deal with H.M. Revenue and Customs a major

success, as George Osborne claimed or just a step

forward as number 10 preferred. John Gapper if I could start with you do you think

this deal heralded the start of an era where big footloose corporations will start to pay more tax in the places they do business?

Well, I think Google certainly saw it as being very significant, wanted it to be seen as very significant, they'd been audited by

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