Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the political party daily at the start of

the second week of a special daily election series on Monday the 18th of November where

I'm joined by Luciana Burge, the former Labour MP for Liverpool Wavratry and in this election

the Lib Dem candidate for Finchley Golders Green. I began by asking Luciani what it was

like having fought three elections for the Labour Party to be standing for the Lib Dems

for the first time.

How does it feel to be standing for election as a Lib Dem?

It's just great to be out of the doorstep, great to be campaigning for something that I believe

in, great to have a very clear position on the greatest issue facing our country on Brexit,

great to be part of a party that is so warm and welcoming and lives and breathes its values

so I'm finding it really refreshing and very positive.

Is there any part of you that as someone who's steeped in Labour values, does it feel

still feel weird? Do you find yourself sometimes saying I'm your local Labour, sorry,

Lib Dem candidate or anything like that?

I think it happened once in a year, you'd be a power party for 20 years as I was in the

Labour Party, nine years in Parliament, of course there's going to be a transition and

it certainly wasn't a decision that I took lightly, it was one of the hardest decisions

I've ever had to make and as you rightly point out the Labour Party is part of my DNA,

it's part of my family's proud history but politics doesn't stand still and parties

don't stand still and you hope that they evolve for the better but if they betray the very

values that led you to join them in the first place then it's not what you joined and if

you want to continue making a difference to our country in a national interest then you

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