Ed Davey has been elected the fourth leader of the Liberal Democrats in five years. Can he break the party out of paralysis and into electoral success? Christine Jardine, the party's MP for Edinburgh West, joins to discuss.

Plus, special advisors: secret power wielders, lowly bag carriers, or something else entirely? Peter Cardwell, former SpAd and author of "The Secret Life of Special Advisers" tells Bloomberg Westminster's Roger Hearing and Sebastian Salek about the highs and lows of the job, and why Dominic Cummings is a "strategic genius".

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