Paddy O’Connell

surname that i shall keep mysteriously i wonder if it's him and if it is hello to you but yeah very happy to talk about the liberal democrats i mean eight years of gains elections absolutely and they're a really big force in local government and they did take some steps forward and they had a decent night and we talked about this a couple of weeks ago didn't we that they have

you know, the Lib Dems, they're playing a different game, right?

They're not trying to win seats absolutely everywhere.

They're much more focused on kind of hyper-local building blocks gradually.

So looking at an area, trying to grow their number of councils, trying to then get an MP there.

And they did have successes.

They won Stockport, they won Portsmouth.

Also, I suppose the media always, by its very nature, the news is about things that are

Unusual.

Unusual and new.

So, of course, reform success is unusual and very significant.

The Greens' recent surge is new and significant.

The Lib Dems, yes, did have advances and absolutely we should talk about them and cover them.

But, you know, news, as you say, it is the things when things change or they suddenly happen unexpectedly that those do tend to be the things that dominate the headlines.

But, yeah, the Liberal Democrats...

do well in local government.

They had a decent time this week and they are, you know, on the march.

Let's return to this subject.

Now, look, we've got to apparently play some amazing audio between Victoria Atkins, Robert Jenrick with Sophie Rayworth.

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