Good morning, good afternoon and good evening.

Welcome podcast listeners to episode five of Calling Peston,

the podcast that promises to do a daily election update,

and it is a promise we would gladly etch in stone

and put in the gardens of 10 Downing Street.

I'm Daniel Hewitt.

He is Edwina Curry's favorite journalist, Sheehab Khan, and will be speaking to David Tennant's long-lost brother, Robert Peston, who on today's episode will be taking your questions on what on earth is going on in this election campaign.

Lots to get through today. The Prime Minister has chaired an emergency cobra meeting looking into how to deal with the floods that have hit Yorkshire.

Joe Swinson, the Lib Dem leader, has been in Doncaster speaking to those affected.

Jeremy Corbin has been announcing Labour's education policy in Blackpool and then went off to Yorkshire to speak to the victims of the flood.

Now let's have a listen to what some of the local residents in the village of Stainfield near Fish Lake

where hundreds of people have been forced to evacuate their homes had to say to us when we spoke to them earlier today.

It's the environment that's been destroyed by the lack of care, you know.

Do they really care?

We've not seen much evidence of any government support in any way, really.

It's been down to the people

that live here. Where was there before all this started? Then defence was wanted doing years ago.

Yeah, as Sheeb said, hundreds of homes have been flooded. More than a thousand properties have been

evacuated. Boris Johnson has been heavily criticised by both Labour and the Liberal Democrats

for his handling of these floods in Yorkshire. We'll be speaking to Gerry Scott from the Yorkshire

Post who's been to see those people affected to get her reaction to what people have been

telling her there. We've also, we'll be speaking to Robert about this as well as she have.

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