The next guest on tonight’s edition of Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge is Christine Jardine, the Lib Dem Cabinet Office spokesperson.
Asked who she thinks is going to win tonight’s debate, she replies that “the biggest danger tonight is that the public doesn’t really like anything that they see”.
She says people want something “different” from what both parties are offering, so the “the biggest thing tonight will be that the public just doesn’t really engage with either Rishi Sunak or Keir Starmer”.
If you were watching the debates in 2010, you will remember that then leader Nick Clegg making quite the impact (think “Cleggmania”, and the two party leaders fervently agreeing with him).
Asked if the debates could be decisive for the Lib Dems this year, Ms Jardine tells Sophy Ridge that when Sir Ed Davey, the current leader, gets a chance to participate in a debate, they will see “a very different debate”.
“The important thing is we believe in listening to the public and that’s what the public want.”
Lib Dems ‘serious about politics’ amid Davey publicity stunts
Asked if the Lib Dems “need to be a bit more serious now” after Sir Ed Davey was seen on a paddle board and water slide this week as part of his election stunts, Christine Jardine says “we are very serious about our politics”.
“Those photo opportunities were a way of drawing attention to those politics so that people hear what we have to say,” she says.
“Ed is very serious about social care, for example.”
She says the party was “drawing attention to the fact that there is a serious problem with our waterways and swimming waters in this country”.
“In order to do that we had a photo opportunity,” she adds.
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