Why is Ed Davey "Obsessed" With Nigel Farage?
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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After Ed Davey claimed the Lib Dems were the last block against Nigel Farage's 'forces of darkness', why does he spend so much time talking about Reform UK and Donald Trump?
Hugo Rifkind is joined by Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton to unpack the politics of the day.
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| 1:29.4 | Hello, I'm Hugo Rifkin, and now we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day, including Ed Davies' obsession with Donald Trump to Morgan McSweeney, to who Robert Crampton's man-crushes are. And Robert, I'm sitting very close to you. It's going to be a little awkward if I'm one of them. Or indeed, a little awkward if I'm not. Yeah, well, yeah, I'd say you're on the, not towards the top of the list, but maybe sort of second division. |
| 1:30.4 | And we're also joined by Alice Thompson, who may be feeling uncomfortable. |
| 1:38.9 | No, not at all. You're both my crushes, so that's okay. Alice has just bought me a shirt. Yeah. Didn't get you one here. My Mere shirt, yeah. |
| 1:40.3 | Tell us about the shirt, Robert. |
| 1:42.3 | Listeners will be keen to learn more about it. |
| 1:43.3 | It's a corduroy shirt. |
| 1:45.0 | We've both got a thing for corduroy. You're literally wearing a corduroy shirt already. |
| 1:46.7 | I am, but this is another one, but this is a... out Robert. Listeners will be keen to learn more about it. It's a corduroy shirt. We've both got a thing |
| 1:44.5 | for corduroy. |
| 1:45.0 | You're literally wearing a |
| 1:45.9 | corduroy shirt already. |
| 1:46.9 | I am, but this is another |
| 1:47.4 | one, but this is a dark... |
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