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Hello and welcome to the news

from states.

Hello and welcome to the New Statesman podcast.

I'm deputy editor Helen Lewis and this week I'll be talking to Harry Lambert and George Eton

about polls which made very happy reading for the S&P but very bad reading for labour and the Lib Dems

then I'll be talking to Barbara labour and the Lib Dems.

Then I'll be talking to Barbara's Speed and Ian Stedman about the measles outbreak in the US

and whether something similar could happen in the UK.

Finally, I talk to John Elage and Caroline Crampton about the problem of housing, how do we get more and how do we stop the people who already have some feeling bad about that. The Tory peer Lord Ashcroft released a selected snapshot of Poles looking

that very bad for labour in Scotland which would reveal if a uniform swing followed them that the S&P would end up with more than 50 seats.

I'm joined by a polling expert, Harry Lambert, and our political editor George Eaton to discuss them.

So first of all, Harriet, just that word where he was an amazing summary by me me give me a little snapshot of what Ashcroft found.

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