Welcome to F.T. Politics, the Financial Times is podcast on all things British politics.

I'm Sebastian Payne and in this week's episode we'll be discussing week three of the general election

campaign and Labour's leaked manifesto. I'm delighted to be joined by our

political editor George Parker, Chief Political Correspondent Jim Picard,

political commentator Miranda Green, plus the FT's all new election

analyst Matt Singh.

Thank you all for joining.

So the general election campaign has moated along this week with the Conservatives Conservatives mostly keeping their head down and letting

Labour deal with the contents of its leaked manifesto which will come on to later.

Theresa May did try to humanize her image editor appearing on the One show which is known as the Heineken of

television shows I'm informed and being interviewed on LBC to try and reveal a bit more

about her personality and explain to voters why they should believe in her.

George Parker let's begin with this one show thing which I haven't got very excited about that

Theresa and crucially her husband Philip May sat down on the sofa to talk about life, love, their marriage and bins.

Yeah and it seemed to go down very well with the punters.

I was up in Birmingham, Erdington on the high street meeting some of the target Tory voters.

And a number of people had seen that program and they thought that the

Mays came across as a lovely couple down to earth and I think what I find quite surprising

about this whole phenomenon in the way that Theresa May has presented herself is that she

has somehow found a way of connecting to people whose lives are entirely different to hers.

So for example I met a builder on Erdington High Street who said that she's one of us and I said well what do you mean she's one of you?

She's she comes from the home counties that Vickers daughter she lives in a very expensive house by the River Thames.

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