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Hello, we're one with the Red Box podcast on The Times, I'm Matt Jolly. This is part two of the Red Box whip round, a special miniseries of interviews going

behind the scenes of the Whips Office, from the Little Black Book of Mr Meiners to what's in their drinks cabinet.

I've been speaking to serving and former government and opposition whips about what they do and

how they do it.

In this episode I spoke to Alistair Michael, who was the Lib Dem chief whip for the first three and a half years of the coalition with the toys and revealed Scotch whiskey played a big part in keeping the show on the road.

So that's come Michael, let me take you back to May 2010.

Lidd Dem's going into government, a lot of your colleagues setting off for exciting ministerial jobs.

Nick Clegg calls you up and says, I want to put you in charge of discipline and not only do you have to get all of the Lib Dems to vote through all these horrible Tory policies.

You've also got to work incredibly closely with the Tories on this as well. What was your well

I suspect if that had been the pitch it would have been a rather unattractive

prospect of course there's a lot more to whipping than just discipline.

Yeah.

There is a pastoral scientist.

See you're helping colleagues who have difficulties with business life,

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