LBC, Election 2019.

Hello, I'm Ian Dale.

And I'm Sheila Fogarty.

The Daily Trail is a new daily podcast as part of LBC's Election 2019 coverage.

We've teamed up to chew over whatever the political parties have conjured up each day on the campaign trail.

And in today's episode, we'll inevitably look at the fallout from that TV debate last night,

the warning for CCHQ press office over their fact check account.

And we'll take a look at the Lib Dems manifesto, which includes frequent flyer levies and a possible £1.5 billion in savings by legalising, you guessed it, cannabis.

Let's start with the debate last night.

You know, a lot of the talk today has been about anything but the content of the debate,

simply because of the Conservative Party's decision.

And the fact there wasn't a lot of content in the debate.

There certainly wasn't a lot of content that surprised us, was that we know what each of the men thinks about the things that were raised.

We know what each of them thinks about the other person's policies that

were raised. What did you make of the format itself? I thought it was a terrible format, if I'm

honest. Too restrictive? I thought it was, the programme was too short. They started at about three or four

minutes past eight and finished at about six or seven minutes to nine. So it wasn't an hour. It was

more like 50 minutes. And if you look at what

happens in French presidential elections, they often have the final two debating for three hours,

I think sometimes without a moderator. And I mean, everyone was praising Julietching. And I'm not going to

slag her off, but I did think, did she need to thank them each after every single answer? That must have

used at least a minute of time. That's a niggle, if I might say. It's a niggle, but it was indicative

...