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Well, welcome to Bormuth and a special Lib Dem themed edition of the opinion

podcast. A little bit later I will be talking to Julia Unwin of the Joseph Roundtree

Foundation who is in search of a cross-party consensus on poverty fighting.

I'll also be talking to two of my Times colleagues, Patrick Kidd and Michael Savage,

about the Ashcroft book that is Rocking Politics or is it

rocking politics and also whether the Liberal Democrats have recovered a spring

in their step. But first of all I'm joined by Norman Lamb, the defeated candidate for the

leadership of the Liberal Democrats.

Well I'm now joined by Norman Lamb in a very very wet Bormuth. Yeah I just got soaked.

Now you were the unsuccessful candidate for the leadership of the Liberal Democrats.

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