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Learn more at city.com slash we are city. City. Our weekly discussion of UK politics at Westminster and beyond with me Miranda Green.

Joining me today are George Parker, our political editor, and Sebastian Payne, who the alert among you will realize is not in his usual chair here as host, but out

on the campaign trail with the Tory leadership contenders.

We'll be picking over the fruit from the magic money tree that Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt seem to have located.

And then James Blitz, our Whitehall editor, will join us to discuss the idea of a looming general

election.

So, Seab, you are out in the Darlington sunshine with yet another

hustings for the Conservative members. George, you and I are here in our cool FT studio.

But is this contest sort of heating up or is it already boiled over because

the postal ballots are landing on the doorsteps? Is it in fact game over for Hunt already?

You were tweeting that some members are already returning their papers so it might look like a done deal.

Yeah that's kind of interesting at the start of this contest the Conservative Party said that the people would receive their ballot papers between the sixth and the eighth of July, but people would receive their ballot papers between the 6th and the 8th of July, but people were receiving

them on the 4th or even 3rd I think some people and it seemed odd that they seemed running ahead of themselves

and that seemed to benefit the front frontrunner you would think who would benefit

from a shorter campaign this case Boris Johnson and what I'm told by Brandon

Lewis the chairman of the Conservative Party is that it was always their intention

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