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Hello and welcome to the Red Box Podcast on The Times. I'm Matt Chorley. This week I've escaped the usual podcast studio to interview one politician who

dramatically lost his seat in the 2015 general election and another who must quietly wish he had. In the 2015 general election and another who must quietly wish he had.

Later I'll join Ed balls in a dance studio in East London as he struggles with his first strictly routine.

And I'll be asking his dance partner, Kachya catch how he's really getting on.

But first we head to the office of Nick Clegg, the former Deputy

Prime Minister and former Lib Dem leader, who's now one of just

eight MPs the party has left after the general election disaster last year.

Nick sitting here with I can see Big Ben out your win, outside your

win, who've got a plumb office for a backbench MP.

Is there a part of you that wishes you lost your seat last year?

No, that really isn't. Really, really isn't. I mean, well, I have mixed feelings as I see Ed

Ball's whisking catcher across the dance floor. I'm not sure. I don be as brave enough as he's being so I don't have

sort of dreams in that direction. But no I am I genuinely like constituents who work.

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