This is political currency with Ed Balls and George Osborne.

Welcome to this very special episode of political currency.

It's a special Christmas present for you, which we have put together.

I say we, but in fact, as is often the case in households, one person has done most of the shopping and most of the wrapping and thinking about the present.

And that is Ed.

While their partner was travelling around the world at fancy dinners, doing speeches,

kind of, you know, saying they were working hard and in in fact, just leaving the other to do all the work.

Yes. You're the one who's been doing the work, as being clear. I assume you haven't been making those

snarky points. Oh, sorry, we're not in the Christmas spirit. There's lovely points about our lovely partnership.

What you've done is you have interviewed the person who you identified as

politician of the year, 2024, and it was Sir Edward Davy, former cabinet colleague of mine,

now of course leader of the Liberal Democrats who did pretty well in the 2024 election ring

and gave the Liberal Democrats their highest number of seats, I guess, since, what, Lloyd George?

Anyway, you had your pick of all the British politicians, because they all want to be on this show.

Why did you pick, said?

Well, look, it's partly that 2024 kind of award, or at least he got half the currency

publishing of the year award because you didn't agree, it was because, you know, it wasn't just the Liberal Democrat result in the election,

but the fact that Ed Davy so personally told his story, the story of his family, his disabled son,

but also made a pitch for social care reform, for care reform, for family carers to be a centrepiece in politics.

It's not happened yet, but I want to talk to him about his frustration, about the continuing slow progress around that issue.

Also, the Lib Dems, if this is going to be on the base of the current polls, another

election which doesn't give a decisive one-party victory. We don't know, but that might be how

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