Stephen Bush

Yeah, they'll probably have to get support from the Greens to pass things.

But that is a huge defeat for unionism in what ought to have been a golden opportunity for some kind of Scottish Labour revival.

So there has been for a long time rumbling in the Liberal Democrat Party among the MPs this feeling of, oh, you know, he hasn't adjusted to a life where he has to manage a team of 72, not of 12.

And where most of the 12 were his immediate neighbours in the West London area.

And we're not getting the cut through we should.

We're not using the team well enough.

Now, it looks like they've had some exceptionally good results, including in Sutton, where if you were to pick somewhere where something might have gone wrong, it's a very levy outer London borough where reform might have expected to emerge as a stronger challenger to them.

But they've lost their majority in Hull, where they're still the largest party, but they'll probably have to do some kind of deal with Labour.

I think those grumblings and rumblings in the Liberal Democrats are going to continue.

I don't think we're yet at the stage of we need a change.

Some of the most recent changes have made the parliamentary party feel a bit more included.

But I think that feeling of why are we getting so little attention for our 72?

Why aren't we making the running?

And also, broadly speaking, we have very normal European style politics now, right?

Like far right party, far left party politics.

Struggling centre-right party, struggling centre-left party.

What we don't have, which lots of other places have, is a resurgent centre party.

And that question being asked by some Liberal Democrats is, look, why isn't that us?

And that, I think, question is going to get louder and louder throughout this Parliament.

It is also worth pointing out, to also undercut myself and make a further pro-Lib Dem point here,