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My name is Tim Montgomery and welcome to this special edition of the Times Opinion

podcast coming from the 17th floor of the Times Building in London Bridge.

You may already have heard our

podcast where three of my guests today David Ronovich, Jenny Russell and

Danny Finkelstein discussed the general election, but in front of our

studio audience now we're just going to take some questions

responding to perhaps what they heard and some other questions that they might want to raise

about politics.

But our first question from the gentleman in the marine blue socks in the front row.

Jonathan Davies, is there anything to say about the Liberal Democrats?

Both about why they did so badly and how they're going to come back.

David Aronovich, in your pre-election column,

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