certain before the end of 202a. and with the main parties taking a brief break from the cameras, today it was the turn of a couple of the smaller parties to kick off the year. 0ur political editor, chris mason, is here. thanks sophie. let s talk quickly about the liberal democrats and reform uk. mps aren t back at westminster until next week. but politics is waking from its christmassy slumber. i know what you re thinking ? tell us when the general election is going to be. well, i would if i could, but i can t, because we don t know for sure. plenty think the autumn is most likely. the liberal democrats are chipper. they have 15 mps at the moment, out of 650 in total. they don t really do subtlety in their campaigning ? leader ed davey pretended to be a removal man today. their strategy is to ruthlessly focus on 30 to a0 places where they think they can win, including a handful of places in surrey he visited today, including guildford. here in surrey, if you want
parties, who ve kicked off the politicaljamboree for 2024 and chris is here with more details. good evening, clive. let s talk quickly about the liberal democrats and reform uk. politics is waking from its christmassy slumber. i know what you re thinking ? tell us when the general election is going to be. well, i would if i could, but i can t, because we don t know for sure. plenty think the autumn is most likely. the liberal democrats are chipper. they have 15 mps at the moment, out of 650 in total. they don t really do subtlety in their campaigning ? leader ed davey pretended to be a removal man today. their strategy is to ruthlessly focus on 30 to a0 places where they think they can win, including a handful of places in surrey he visited today, including guildford. here in surrey, if you want to beat the conservatives, you vote liberal democrat, but in large parts of the south of england and the south west, in other parts of the country,