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Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply check the Uber app. Hello and this is the new statesman. I'm deputy editor Helen Lewis and this week I'm joined by Ian Leslie to talk about cutting human error in the NHS.

George Eaton, Tim Wigmore and Lucy Fisher talk about the collapse of the Lib Dems and of the BMP, and I talked to

Ian Stedman about whether we should call it climate change or global warming. The It's been a big week for political nerds, so I'm joined by a bumper crop of analysts.

George Eaton, editor of the Staggers, Tim Wigmore, who is joining us to write some articles about politics over the summer, and Lucy Fisher, who is the Tony Howard scholar.

So hello everyone. And I'll start with you first, Tim. You wrote a piece for us about the collapse of the BMP. So Nick Griffin lost his seat, the other

BMP had since left the party already and the boat share they picked up was

pitiful. What happened? Well I think that their success was largely

due to them exploiting a deep-seated anger amongst especially working-class people in Britain and a sense of sort of the

political class would be out of touch. Yeah and so ask me. The kind of idea left behind right?

Yeah and so many of those have gone to Nigel Farage in his party now.

And I think also the BMP, I mean Nick Griffin is a leader he managed to innate pretty much everybody he just insulted people his appearance on question time five years ago was a complete disaster and I

just think ultimately people did not want to and many of those who supported them were holding

their noses as they voted for them.

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