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Well, here we go again. We\\u2019re seven days out from polling day here in the UK, and I don\\u2019t know about you but I\\u2019m not feeling great about it.

So as a form of therapy I dragged Patrick Maguire, who\\u2019s been travelling around the country as part of his role as the New Statesman\\u2019s politics correspondent, back to the podcast to offer some reassurance. He couldn\\u2019t offer any.

Anyway - we did have a fascinating chat about regional differences in voting patterns; how parts of Wales and the North East have never been the anti-Tory heartlands which they\\u2019re sometimes portrayed as; whether housing, transport and other similarly wonk-ish concerns are coming up on the doorstep; and how Napoleon III\\u2019s stay in Southport helped it win the title of \\u201cthe Paris of the North\\u201d.

Skylines is the podcast from the New Statesman\\u2019s cities site, CityMetric. It\\u2019s hosted by Jonn Elledge and produced by Nick Hilton.

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