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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Patrick Gibbons and today I'm joined by our Deputy Political Editor James Heel and our economics editor, Michael Simmons. The Liberal Democrat conference has just ended with leader Ed Davy delivering his closing remarks.

We can hear a clip of that speech now.

Just imagine if you can bear it.

Imagine living in the Trump-inspired country, Farage wants us to become, where there's no NHS.

So patients are hit with crippling insurance bills or denied healthcare altogether.

That is Trump's America.

Don't let it become Farage as Britain.

James, in the speech, there was a bit of an attack on Labour's lack of vision, but it feels like the main attack was on reform, and Ed Davey was pitching himself as the anti-Farge. Yeah, that's correct. I think it was striking that the attacks on Labour were more in sorrow than in anger. There was a lot of sort of, alas, you know, talking about how there was a lot of promise for this Labour government. And of course, traditionally, liberal Democrats do well when the Labour government does well. And that's been the story for decades now in British politics. And so it was quite striking to contrast the sort of regretful, sorrowful tone with which he talked about Labour's failure, such as the family farms tax, with what I regard as sort of the criticisms of the conservatives,

and then a full frontal attack on Nigel Farage.

30 mentions of Farage talking about Farage's Britain in terms that were reminiscent of Edward Kennedy's famous attack and assault on Robert Bork, Robert Bork's America in the 1980s

during a Supreme Court hearing.

So it was a really strong attack.

I think it was the kind of

speech that liberals have been dreaming about Hugh Grant, Love Actually style all summer. I think it was

a bit times it was punchy, it was personal, at times pure art. But it will be the kind of speech that

works for Ed Davy and the kind of voters he's hoping to attract to become Liberal Democrats.

And we were both there, James, the last couple of days at the conference in Bournemouth.

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