Should we trust the polls?

There’s a week to go before votes are counted and barely a day
goes by in the campaign without a new poll.


So are the Conservatives really on course for an election "wipe
out"? Are Labour set for a so called ‘supermajority’? Where did
the term ‘supermajority’ even come from and should we be
sceptical about poll findings?


Amol and Nick are joined by the doyenne of polling, psephologist
Prof Sir John Curtice, to interrogate the numbers and the
algorithms that generate them.


And they assess how the smaller parties’ campaigns are stacking
up.


Plus – moment of the week – find out why Nick has been swimming
with seals.


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The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson, both
presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the UK’s most
influential radio news programme. Amol was the BBC’s media editor
for six years and is the former editor of the Independent, he’s
also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick has
presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the BBC’s
political editor for ten years before that and also previously
worked as ITV’s political editor.


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The senior producer is Tom Smithard, the researcher and digital
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