Does the Lib Dem manifesto add up?
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
It's manifesto week! It's week three of the election campaign and parties are set to deliver their manifestos in the coming days. This was kicked off today with the launch of the Lib Dem manifesto. So what have they pledged? Do the numbers add up? And does it really matter if they don't?
The team also discuss what's been happening politically over the weekend, including Friday's seven headed debate, the continuation of Sunak's D Day-gate, and Macron's decision to call a snap election.
Hannah Barnes, associate editor, is joined by Rachel Cunliffe, associate political editor; Chris Deerin, Scotland editor; and Will Dunn, business editor.
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| 0:00.0 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:02.0 | Statesman. Hello, I'm Hannah Barnes, Associate Editor at the New Statesman, and you're listening to the |
| 0:10.9 | New Statesman podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | During this general election campaign, |
| 0:14.8 | we are bringing you new episodes every weekday, |
| 0:17.6 | with updates on party policy announcements, |
| 0:20.0 | reaction from around the UK, |
| 0:21.8 | and the best polling analysis with our experts. |
| 0:25.2 | I'm joined in the studio today by our associate political editor Rachel Kunliff, |
| 0:29.7 | down the line by our Scotland editor, Chris Deering, and a little later on, |
| 0:34.0 | business editor will done or be popping in as well. |
| 0:37.0 | Okay, team, happy Monday. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome to Week 3 of election campaigning. |
| 0:42.0 | Pretty serious now. We're getting into Manifesto Week and |
| 0:45.5 | all the main parties are going to be launching their key policies this week. |
| 0:49.9 | Liberal Democrats first out of the blocks. We're going to come onto that in a bit, but let's just start today by going back to Friday night where we kind of left last week's podcasts and that seven headed TV debate on BBC. Rachel's starting |
| 1:07.3 | with you, I mean the most lively clashes as expected really between Angela |
| 1:12.0 | Eina from Labour and |
| 1:13.0 | and Penny Mordent from the Conservatives. |
| 1:16.7 | How do you think they both did? |
| 1:18.6 | Well, I thought everyone's performance was significantly |
| 1:21.9 | livelier than the Sunak-Stama head-to-head. |
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