paul mason, guardian columnist, is here, as is ian dale, lbc radio presenter and polly mckenzie, special advisor to nick clegg until 2015. great to have you all here. paul, this was an overwhelmingly good day for the tories, wasn't it, you presumably concede it? 0verwhelmingly good day for hard brexit. we have seen dramatic events of su bsta nce. it's not been a week of flimflam. theresa may picked a real fight with the european union. walked away dramatically — she did her own bit. walked away and created a diplomatic situation which i think has drama advertised in the minds of former ukip voters the whole situation. we have an alliance of tories and ukip. that is new. that can win any election it wants to. aggressive alliance isn't going to work? it redoubles the need for that half of british politics it redoubles the need for that half of british politics that believes in progressive politician, globalalism, we need to stop fighting each other. we need to work out, it's entirely possible, how we can stop that tory ukip alliance taking britain off the cliff edge into an economic catast

paul mason, who's off this scale on the left. we have iain dale, on the right, lbc presenter.you put theresa may? i will put her down here, quite protectionist, and left of the tory party y axis. more up here. cani... we should not forget one of the extraordinary thing yessn i would definitslg'" ” ' ' and whether you want to call it red toryism, and i know she denied there was such a thing as may—ism... paul, how would you position this? look, there are no unions left a smash, nothing left to privatise, so it is hard to be as right—wing as thatcher. protectionist, down there. she is an economic nationalist. there is one sentence in that manifesto that reveals that, her preparedness to walk away from europe without a deal. she could have left that out. i think the idea of literally declaring udi from europe, leaving ourselves and economy with no market, that is quite nationalised. i think until we know how this is costed, how big is the state going to be when they eventually get rid of the deficit in the mid 2020s, then we don't know really how the left and right it is and that

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one of the most popular tweets of all was this one from paul mason, about should we be upgrading tridentr attacks seen asjeremy aspect. with the cyber attacks seen as jeremy corbyn aspect. with the cyber attacks seen asjeremy corbyn things. aspect. with the cyber attacks seen as jeremy corbyn things. among labour supporters it was this one that was most shared. this is the interesting thing. the received wisdom in electoral politics as if we are talking about the nhs, labour is winning. that is what strategists have always thought. labour supporters on twitter were more likely to be talking about this ra nsomwa re than those likely to be talking about this ransomware than those from the conservative party. they especially focused on the fact thatjeremy corbyn had been speaking about a tax that very morning on the nhs from things like —— speaking about attacks. the tories did not engage in any way the same volume. the labour party wants to get the conversation onto the nhs of this was the way to do it. where they did talk about this and i think it reflects the strengths of the different p

paul mason is a guardian columnist and a labour supporter.nd the managing director of biteback publishing. and down the line from salford, jennifer williams is the political editor of the manchester evening news. it's great to have you all. jennifer, i'll start with you because this is a completely different campaign, at least it feels that, to the one we were expecting. campaigning has come back with a vengeance. does it feel like manchester is ready for that to resume at this sort of level? i think in manchester and not sure people are focusing on the general election campaign now. as the campaign kicks back on, i suppose it started again with ukip yesterday... it's easy to think we're back into the swing. in manchester it's been four days. people aren't yet in a position to really process the information. we're still a city in shock. i can only really speak from a personal perspective... it feels very soon—to—be back to electioneering again. for a personal perspective, somebody who lives in manchester, it does feel too soon. i spoke to a f