Why aren't the Lib Dems doing better?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Presented by Cindy Yu.
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| 0:39.6 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:44.4 | I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman. |
| 0:48.5 | So today the Liberal Democrats launched their party manifesto for the coming election. |
| 0:53.0 | James, what was in it? |
| 0:56.2 | So it has a whole, |
| 1:01.2 | I mean, the Lib Dems are probably keener on policy than any other party. It obviously has their signature policy in a revoking Article 50 on their first day as part of a majority government. |
| 1:06.8 | It also, perhaps not consistently given their thinking about being in a majority government, |
| 1:10.4 | also suggests a legalised cannabis market. |
| 1:14.5 | They want to get 80% of the electricity market decarbonised by 2030. |
| 1:20.8 | And they're also talking about quite conservative of a small C fiscal rules. |
| 1:27.8 | I think the way that they think they can do that is they talk about the so-called |
| 1:31.7 | remain bonus, that they argue that because if the UK is stayed in the EU, the GDP would |
| 1:38.0 | be larger than it otherwise would be, and they would use that, they would spend that money |
| 1:42.3 | on public services, and that would enable them. |
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