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

I'm Sebastian Payne, Digital Comment Editor,

and this week we'll be dissecting what's happened in the EU referendum campaign this week

and whether the Tories are out to destroy the BBC. To discuss this I'm delighted to be joined by our business editor Sarah Gordon,

our chief leader writer Jonathan Ford, leader writer James Blitz, and the political commentator

and author Ian Martin. Thank you all for coming.

So let's begin with the E-Ref referendum, which has certainly kicked up a notch after the so-called

Short campaign began. With just six weeks till voting day, the Remain campaign has ramped up the fear by talking

about the possibility of war or conflict after Brexit. On the leave side, they've

tried to move their case on from immigration while getting into an unfortunate argument with I TV about Nigel Farage.

So James Blitz to begin, what's the campaign looking like at this stage?

The polls are still very tight and it doesn't feel like as if anyone's really gaining any

momentum yes I think with five weeks to go the poles are tight the remain side is

on about 46 percent the leaf side on about 43 but there's a margin of error in these polls of about 3%

so I don't think anybody can be confident of any result. I think what you've seen as a result

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