Never Mind The Bar Charts

How are Labour and the Liberal Democrats doing?

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I was joined again by Professor Tim Bale for the last episode in 2020 of Never Mind The Bar Charts. We took a look back at Tim's five lessons for opposition parties and discussed how both Labour and the Liberal Democrats are doing on each of them.

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Show notes
  • Tim Bale's five lessons for opposition parties.
  • The Liberal Democrat record in coalition.
  • Alistair Darling promising bigger cuts than Margaret Thatcher.
  • The Thornhill Report into what went wrong for the Lib Dems in 2019.
  • What are the possible Lib Dem target seats like?
  • The Politics of Competence by Will Jennings and Jane Green: Bookshop / Amazon.*
  • Photo courtesy of Tom Jeffs / Parrot of Doom, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Tim Bale on Twitter.
  • Theme tune by Hugo Lee.
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