Special: in search of the Lib Dem fight back

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.1 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Matt Chorley escapes the Westminster bubble to visit Yeovil to discover if the Lib Dem fightback is realistic. Listen in as he travels around the local area to chat with Conservative candidate, Marcus Fysh, Lib Dem candidate, Jo Roundell Greene and a whole host of local voters. There's also expert analysis from Professor Charles Lees from the University of Bath and Times columnist Hugo Rifkind.

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0:00.0	Just imagine what your best Christmas ever would sound like.
0:03.4	Thank you for calling National Lottery. I can see you calling about a winner today, is that correct?
0:07.4	Yeah, I think I have. I'd just take to double check before I do a cartwheel.
0:11.1	Yeah, I can confirm that you have won the top prize 1.2 million oh my
0:15.5	what happy Christmas why do now you have the best Christmas ever this Christmas it could be you. The National Lottery. Rules and procedures apply. Players must be
0:28.3	18 or over.
0:29.3	Attention all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey.
0:41.0	So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.
0:46.5	Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast on The Times. I'm Matt
0:59.8	Surely. This week I've left the Westminster bubble in search of a creature more mythical and harder
1:04.6	to find the Loch Ness monster, the Libdom fight back.
1:08.9	Does it really exist?
1:09.9	Has anyone actually seen it? I'm in Yeovle in Somerset, former Libden
1:15.2	stronghold where Patty Ashdown the former leader was MP for many years and still lives
1:19.6	in a village just outside the town. David Laws was then the MP and went on to become a cabinet minister
1:25.2	in the coalition government, but he saw his Libden majority
1:28.6	of 13,000 demolished by the Conservatives in 2015 when Marcus Fish took the seat.
1:35.4	A lot's happened in the last two years of course, not least Brexit
1:39.2	and one of the big problems that lived them's face and try to come back in their
1:42.4	strongholds in Somerset, Devon and
1:44.0	Cornwall is that those areas voted overwhelmingly in favour of Brexit, while Jim Farron
1:49.2	nationally is pitching his party as the voice of Remain.
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