Where do the Lib Dems go next?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The challenge that they face now is improving on that number, providing some opposition to the Labour party and protecting their new Surrey MPs once the new Tory leader is decided. We have heard Ed Davey speak passionately on social care, but can they carve a distinct position on other big policy issues, such as Europe? Or the NHS?
Katy Balls speaks to James Heale and Stephen Bush, associate editor of the Financial Times.
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| 0:22.1 | Hello and |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Katie Paul's and I'm in Brighton, |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Katie Paul's and I'm in Brighton alongside James Heel and Stephen Bush of the FT. Now Stephen and |
| 0:35.9 | James I think you were both at the Glee Club last night at Liberal Democrat |
| 0:39.3 | conference. Any particular tunes that jumped out to you and Stephen perhaps you can first explain to listen to as you don't already know what this institution of liberal Democrat conferences is. |
| 0:50.0 | The Glee Club is always happening on the final lives of the Democrat Conference and like all of the final lines of the Democrat Conference, there is a form of |
| 0:57.2 | party, the Labor, it's the Mirror Party, which ends in karaoke, the Conservatives, it's |
| 1:02.0 | a spectator party. The Liberal Democrats |
| 1:04.7 | equivalent is Glee where they essentially rewrite a bunch of songs, some old |
| 1:11.1 | song new, to be about the fortunes of the party. |
| 1:14.2 | So for example, a favor of my bar, |
| 1:16.5 | because I'd like the something that's based on is losing deposits. |
| 1:19.7 | Obviously losing their deposits in elections |
| 1:21.6 | is a thing the Liberal Democrats have some history of the tune of |
| 1:24.8 | Waltzing Matilda which goes, you know, like, what's the garden losing? |
| 1:28.8 | That's probably enough. |
| 1:30.8 | There's a record in this. |
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