One less blue brick in the wall
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Matt Chorley speaks about the symbolic and surprising result of the Chesham and Amersham by-election where the Liberal Democrats took it from the Conservatives. He spoke to the leader of the party Sir Ed Davey, Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Grender, pollster Chris Curtis and the Times' Henry Zeffman.
PLUS he dives into the day's news with the Sunday Times' Josh Glancy and Rachel Cunliffe of the News Statesman on the EU sausage row and the Euros.
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| 1:01.6 | slash change. Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt |
| 1:06.4 | Shirley coming up on today's episode. We've talked about it a lot on Red Box over the years, |
| 1:12.7 | but is the Lib Dem fight back actually happening? A cracking discussion coming up. I've been |
| 1:17.6 | speaking to Sir Ed Davy, leader of the Lib Dems, who spent the morning knocking down a blue |
| 1:22.4 | wall with an orange hammer. Yeah, you don't need to me to explain that metaphor, but a cracking |
| 1:28.1 | panel as well with Olly Grenda, Baroness Grenda, Lib Dem peer, former advisor to Paddy Ashtan and |
| 1:33.3 | Nick Clegg amongst others, Henry Zeffman, Times Chief, and Chris Curtis from the polling firm |
| 1:39.9 | opinion on what all this really means. Is it bad news for Boris Johnson? What does it mean for the |
| 1:46.0 | Labour Party? Do the Lib Dems and the Labour Party had to form some form of pact? And then I just |
| 1:50.7 | asked them how many seats do they think the Lib Dems might get after the next election. So all |
| 1:55.8 | that is coming up in just a moment, but first we kick off with our columnist panel and today is |
| 1:59.7 | Josh Glancy for the Sunday Times and Rachel Cundiff from the New States. Right, so I suppose we do |
| 2:05.7 | need to start with the big political news because it's always nice if something happens in politics |
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