LBC Election 2019

You're listening to LBC's election 2019

podcast speaking directly to those fighting for power.

I'm Sheila Fogarty in this episode.

Anne Whitticum tells us what offers she had from number 10 to stand aside.

Then I did have a call from number 10, and we had a conversation in which it was the same sort of moral pressure.

You know, it was all going to be my fault if the Tory lost.

Michael Gove is quizzed over that confusing number of new nurses they plan for the NHS.

There are new posts, but it's also the case that existing nurses who would have left will be there as well.

Sadiq Khan is asked what went wrong at London Bridge that led to the deaths of Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones.

There are some people who can't be rehabilitated, and that's why we know some people who receive a life sentence, it does mean life.

And Labour's Barry Gardner is put on the spot about Labor's Brexit position.

Are you telling me I'm right, right, way?

I voted Labor all my life.

After Nigel Farage recently claimed that Brexit Party candidates have been offered jobs and peerages by the Tories to stand aside at the election,

something the Conservative Party denies.

Ian Dale asks Anne Whittaker if she is one of them.

You were telephoned by people offering sort of baubles to persuade you to stand down in your seat.

How did those conversations start and how did they go?

Right. Well, first of all, if one's talking about conversations, I would only offer anything

in one conversation. I had several conversations with people who rang me up to try and

persuade me not to stand, trying to say it was my moral responsibility of the vote split.

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