Are the Lib Dems winning here?
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
After a series of by-election victories, could the Lib Dem election machine be powering the party back to its late 90s levels of popularity? Anoosh Chakelian, Freddie Hayward and Ben Walker look at the party’s recent performance, how it is preparing to fight an upcoming election and why Brexit has changed the kinds of seats it is fighting for.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Anouche. I'm Freddie. And on today's episode of the New |
| 0:14.8 | Statesman podcast, we're discussing all things LibDem. |
| 0:18.4 | So we're doing a special episode on the LibDem's |
| 0:29.8 | today, which we did promise. We did a special on the green party not so long ago, |
| 0:34.2 | which you can find in the show notes of this podcast if you're interested in |
| 0:37.3 | their prospects and their strategies. So first of all, let's start with you |
| 0:40.8 | Freddie, because you have looked recently into the LibDem's general election |
| 0:45.2 | strategy. And what's really interesting, I really like these kind of monikers |
| 0:49.0 | that parties give their target voters. You found that their targeting life |
| 0:52.9 | long toys, which I suppose we know from what they've been doing in |
| 0:56.3 | by elections and things, but also the sorry shufflers. Can you explain a bit |
| 0:59.8 | about what they're doing for those two groups? Yeah, I was quite surprised when |
| 1:02.7 | they said this. This is one of the one source who sort of highly involved |
| 1:06.6 | with their election strategy and their targeting these sorry shufflers. These |
| 1:10.4 | are people who've moved to London, maybe got a partner, moved out to Kennington |
| 1:14.7 | or somewhere in the southwest of London. And then they maybe want to have a |
| 1:18.0 | family. So they want to move to Surrey Hartfordshire. The problem is that |
| 1:23.1 | they would never vote for it because these are these are Londoners. It's not |
| 1:25.6 | what they do. But then when they move out of the city, Labour don't really have |
| 1:29.2 | much of a presence. So they turn to the LibDem. LibDems are really thinking now |
| 1:33.1 | about how they can actually target these voters and particularly trying to get |
| 1:37.0 | their ground strategy up and running in the next few years. That's so |
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