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Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast

Who's up and who's down with six days to go?

Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast

ITV News

Government, News, Politics

4.3179 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

With the election less than a week away, Daniel, Shehab and Robert take a look at how the parties are faring as we edge closer to the big day.On a busy Friday on the campaign trail, the Conservatives were attacked on two fronts. Labour leader Jeremy Cor...

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0:00.0

Six days to go, the last Friday before election day.

0:07.6

Welcome to episode 23 of Calling Peston, the podcast that never misses the Queen's Christmas Day speech.

0:15.4

I'm Daniel Hewitt.

0:16.3

That is Shehab Khan, hashtag keep Khan and carry on.

0:20.5

And on the phone for the last who's up, who's down of this series is Robert Peston, our political editor.

0:26.4

Also on the podcast today, we'll be joined by ITV weather presenter Lucy Verasami as we look ahead to what the weather might be like on election day.

0:34.8

But first, Sheehab, as your 60 secondnd rundown on Friday the 6th of December.

0:40.3

Today we got a second Jeremy Corbyn leaked document reveal of the election campaign. Today he

0:45.7

held up a document written by civil servants which appears to show that according to Jeremy Corbyn

0:50.8

that Boris Johnson is misrepresenting his Brexit deal. The Northern Ireland

0:54.5

would be symbolically separated from the rest of the UK and there would be customs checks.

0:59.5

In response, Boris Johnson has said the claims are complete nonsense, but the Conservative Party

1:04.1

said that there will be checks as goods head into Northern Ireland. And today the former

1:09.5

Conservative Prime Minister John Major urged people to vote for anti-Brexit

1:13.6

candidates in what's being seen as a carefully worded attempt at saying don't vote for Boris

1:19.1

Johnson.

1:20.1

Shehab, thank you very much.

1:22.6

You are more than welcome.

1:23.6

Well done for yesterday.

1:25.6

Thank you.

1:26.6

Flying solo on your own. Thanks for bothering to come in.

1:28.1

Oh no, sorry.

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