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Hello and welcome to Coffeyhouse Shots, the Spectator's daily politics podcast.

I'm Oskre Ebbinson and I'm joined by James Heel and Nick Tyrone, author of the This Week in

Brexit Land sub-stack.

And today we're talking about the Liberal Democrats and what their 2024 might look like.

After a string of by-election successes, could this be the year that the Lib Dems do cut through

and we see the return of three party politics?

So James, starting with you, the liberal Democrats

kicks off their campaigning in Guilford this week with a huge poster branding

them as Ed Davies Tory removal service. Do you think the not tory message is a strong enough one going into an election year?

Well I think we saw a perfect encapsulation of what the Lib Dems year is going to be all about this week which is in an area like

Guilford pitching themselves very simply as getting rid of the Tories and that's

their strategy really. I think it's all done as a direct contrast of 2019 when I

think there was a policy of Project 320

of targeting enough seats to win the actual election and obviously they ended up

with I think it was 10 or 11 last 11 seats last time and so this time they're very much more focusing on a

handful also about 20 seats and trying to get about 30 and of course on my hand

you think what's wrong with that any party that doubled their seats overnight from 15 to 30.

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