Future. Having fun, but with a serious focus. It reminds me of our election campaign. Do you know they wanted me to wear a wet Suit Today . But i said it was abseiling or nothing. So here we are. Having a party. After winning our largest number of mps i have 100 years for over 100 Years Applause the best result in our modern partys history. 72 Liberal Democrats in the House Of Commons fighting for the freer, fairer, more open society we all want to build. How fitting it was that the final seat to declare, number 72, was the home of one of the great champions of that more liberal society, Our Dear Friends charles kennedy. Today i want to talk about the exciting opportunity, our new strength gives us. And the responsibility it places on us to. But before i get to that serious bet, i want to say thank you. To all of you. Members, volunteers, counsellors, candidates, you are all absolutely fantastic. Everybody played a part in our electing of the 72 members of parliament. 0ur largest numbe
After celebrating their best ever general Election Results, The Party is the third biggest in parliament. Some of its members are here as mps for the first time. The mood is so upbeat, it is so buoyant but we are really determined to get stuff done. The reason we fight in elections and we win elections is so we can achieve things for our community so i am excited to be talking about our plan fixing Social Care and the health service, and how we really represent our community to be that strong, determined opposition to the government and represent our community is the best possible way we can. The Liberal Democrats achieved record Election Results by pitching themselves in opposition to the conservatives. Raising the question of what to do now that labour are in power. The party says it wants to offer a constructive opposition, challenging ministers on policies they dont like, such as the recent cut in the Winter Fuel Allowance. And they want to use this platform to put forward their ow
Original guestimate that the conservatives will get an overall majority with Boris Johnson a little bit of figure on that im guessing a majority of 40 at the time you out of these these famous words are i think just once and was 5 to one against her to lose a seat so the 1st question was did you get money on the demise of the liberal democrat leader i didnt put anything on and i think that would have jinxed my predictions but i had one very good reason to think shed lose i did the same thing and i could sense the same things happening to her as happened to me in my seat in 2010 but nobody listened including the liberal democrats despite my repeated warnings that i thought shed lose by a small margin but as you say i was right and was just once an open. My eyes a liberal democrat problems or were the people difficulties for the liberals in the sky she was half the problem i said here in this very studio that she wasnt cutting it in the general election as she just didnt come across as c
Desks theyve been pretty to work by their new taskmasters returning m. P. s come back to a very different place the boarding is the same but inside it has changed and changed utterly instead of a truculent Minority Parliament we have a step for to simply with a huge majority of 80 super loyalist m. P. s or is johnson is a master of all that he surveys no longer will little known m. P. s be asked with breathless excitement by the media how they are shaping up for the next knife age for it they wont be any such words household names like on the superman Dominic Grieve will disappear from our t. V. Screens perhaps forever but is it all plain sailing for the Prime Minister sometimes in politics nothing feels like success alex ross our panel how events are likely to unfold. I know im trying to read the ruins of the general election by a prestigious spinal of political pundits but im no column the rebel musketeer bitter or bottom a rebel tory who ended up voting for jeremy called the Chris W