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Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to an election special New statesman podcast. I'm Deputy Editor Helen Lewis and this week I'll be talking to Jason Cowley and George Eaton about Englishness, Scottishness, and whether or not the SMP really are as scary as the Tories claim they are.

Then Stephen Bush, Harry Lambert and I will be reviewing the latest polls

and working out which of the to discuss the week in politics.

George I'm going to start with you first of all which is the theme of the campaign really for the last couple of days

although Labour have been plugging away at NHS week has been these tory attacks on the idea

that the you know the that the Scots are coming.

Are they effective? Are they cutting through first of all?

Well, candidates from all parties say that this is being raised

unprompted by voters on the doorstep and it has entered popular

conversation. I don't think it's going to be a big election theme for most voters but the key

for the Tories at this stage is to win

over the voters they need to remain in power and there are two groups in particular who they

think this message will prove effective. The first star those who voted for them in 2010 but have defected to UKIP.

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