Hello and welcome to another special edition of the political party as part of this replay

series where I have hand-picked.

I don't know why I say hand-picked.

I mean I've used my hands to go through my iPod, iPhone and scroll through the feed and I guess I typed

up all of this with my hands but not quite the same as going through a stack of

vinyl is it but I guess I use my hand so I don't know why I've been so

pinnickity with myself about the use of the phrase handpicked but in a way I think my head picked them

specifically my brain.

Welcome to this brain-picked selection of shows

from the back catalog of the political party

while I'm in hospital.

So, I'm just hospital. So, I just finding new ways to say it, but I think I'm just saying the same words

and emphasizing them differently. This is with Nick Kleg from 2016 and obviously the 2015 election the year before had put an end to five years of

coalition rule and Nick colleagues leadership of the Lib Dems and this is a

fascinating interview with him about his time as leader the Dems, about his time as an MEP before that, his

life upbringing career, but really focusing on this five years.

Unprecedented years for my generation, seeing a coalition government for most of us we've never seen it

and seeing it function in the way that it did and seeing it survive way better than

people thought it would. Nick Clegg obviously now has gone on to work for Meta and continues to be an influence on a global level.

But in 2016 he was just over a year after leaving office and this is a frank and fascinating interview.

Enjoy! Thank you. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we've had some, I think every guest we've had here has been fantastic. And it's always interesting to talk to people at

different points in their career there are certain people and that wasn't a joke

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