SHOW 112 - Jo Swinson (LIVE)

Matt Forde's Political Party

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🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Jo Swinson is the Leader of the Liberal Democrats and is hoping to become the UK's next Prime Minister. She talks to Matt at the start of the 2019 General Election campaign and explains why the Lib Dems policy of revoking Article 50, why the party wouldn't enter into a coalition with Jeremy Corbyn or Boris Johnson and gives the inside story on how she was almost a lad's mag pin-up. REGISTER TO VOTE (but only if you promise to use your vote sensibly): https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote Follow Jo on Twitter: @joswinson Follow Matt on Twitter: @mattforde Get tickets to the Brexit, Pursued by a Bear and The Political Party here: www.mattforde.com/live *** EXTRA LONDON DATES AHEAD OF NATIONAL TOUR *** 9 November - Southbank Centre 18 December - Political Party Christmas Special with Sadiq Khan Email the show: politicalpartypodcast@gmail.com

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Political Party podcast at the start of another general election campaign.
0:05.4	So this month's guest couldn't have been better times, is Joe Swinson, the leader of the Liberal Democrats
0:11.1	and someone bidding to be Britain's next Prime Minister. This election is going to be volatile.
0:16.0	Who knows the effect of all these three possibly four-way marginals? You're in a situation where parties
0:22.5	could get less votes in a seat than they did last time and win it because of the way the votes
0:26.4	splits amongst the others. And the whole thing is up in the air. We're right at the start of it
0:30.9	and to be talking to one of the leaders of one of Britain's major parties was a great thrill.
0:36.2	And you get the sense from Joe, she was a brilliant guest, the stealing determination
0:42.4	that she possesses and that she's going to need to take on Labour and the Tories and indeed
0:47.9	everyone else. But this is a brilliant insight into why the Lib Dems went from wanting a referendum
0:55.2	to just straight out saying they'll revoke Article 50 as well as all sorts of other debates about
1:00.1	how wrong the coalition, about things she would do differently, about leadership. And of course
1:06.3	the politics of the day and where the Liberal Democrats fit in to a system where the Tories want
1:12.1	to deliver Brexit. Labour going into an election campaign, it seems with an ambiguous policy position
1:19.4	which is they're not going to tell people where they stand. Has this been a masterstroke from the
1:24.0	Lib Dems to really go all out for the remain vote? Do the alienate leave votes as they might need?
1:29.2	This whole thing is discussed over the next hour or so with Joe Swinson so I enjoy
1:35.3	and on the other side so exciting news. Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the show. Give me
1:41.1	a cheer if you've been here before. Welcome back Regulus, give me a cheer if this is your first sign.
1:46.6	Oh welcome, no comments, fantastic. Excited about the election?
1:49.5	Oh you got to be kidding me. The one room of people I thought would be really up for it.
1:55.8	You're right, no way. I'm so excited. None of you are. I checked you with this thought.
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