Alistair Carmichael
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Sep 22, 2026
Madeline GrantHOST
And at their best, some of the most competent parliamentarians who provide valuable scrutiny on committees.
Madeline GrantHOST
Alistair Carmichael was a good example.
Michael GoveHOST
Yes.
Madeline GrantHOST
Absolutely brilliant on his select committee that he was on.
Madeline GrantHOST
I think the Lib Dems at their worst can be the very worst.
Madeline GrantHOST
And at their best, some of the most competent parliamentarians who provide valuable scrutiny on committees and Alistair Carmichael was a good example.
Madeline GrantHOST
Absolutely brilliant on his select committee that he was on.
Madeline GrantHOST
Keir Starmer was terrified of him, you could tell.
Matt ChorleyHOST
Politics also requires imagination.
Matt ChorleyHOST
Alistair Carmichael says, we've been a little bit cautious sometimes.
Matt ChorleyHOST
Another Lib Dem MP has told the Mirror, I can tell you a lot of MPs aren't happy and they hate the stunts.
Matt ChorleyHOST
Oh, do we hate the stunts.
Harry FarleyCORRESPONDENT
But for a party on track, according to many opinion polls, to hold most of those seats with a chance of winning some more, it's quite striking just how much discontent there is here.
Harry FarleyCORRESPONDENT
Alistair Carmichael, you're one of the Liberal Democrats' longest serving MPs now.
Alistair CarmichaelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, thanks for that.
Alistair CarmichaelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yep.
Anna HillHOST
There were 1,300 fires in total, which destroyed 19 homes and 50,000 acres of countryside.
Anna HillHOST
The Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs Select Committee, chaired by the Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael, quizzed representatives from Defra and the Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government, or MHCLG.
Anna HillHOST
MP Jenny Riddle Carpenter, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at Defra, faced questions.
Anna HillHOST
Her constituency in Suffolk suffered a major wildfire on Dunwich Heath.
speaker_0HOST
Now, the government's approach to wildfires has come under scrutiny during the EFRA Committee's House of Commons meeting this week.
speaker_0HOST
Chair Alistair Carmichael opened by noting record fire numbers, 19 homes destroyed and over 50,000 acres burned.
speaker_0HOST
While firefighters were praised for their response, Carmichael pointed out the thousands of land managers, farmers and gamekeepers who were not paid to fight, who were left coughing up ash for days.
speaker_0HOST
The debate became heated after Carmichael questioned why the government only started to take the issue seriously once the fires began to spread to the suburbs.
Scott ArthurSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When you visited the distillery in Aberdeenshire, did they explain the importance of that malt whiskey brand and why that should be protected? Because it does seem that this decision today does weaken, weaken that brand
Mandy BakerCORRESPONDENT
A Lib Dem, Alistair Carmichael, went further.
Mandy BakerCORRESPONDENT
Did English whiskey really deserve to be called single malt?
Alistair CarmichaelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Is the government trying to create a new market for a different product? And if that is what they are doing, shouldn't that then be reflected in its name?
Norman HamiltonGUEST
But the guarantee of easily available and relatively cheap food is now under serious threat, not least because of the drought and the heat that has affected so much of the UK and Europe this summer.
Norman HamiltonGUEST
Alistair Carmichael, who is the chairman of Parliament's Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, told the BBC recently that we must brace ourselves for further food price inflation shocks later this year.
Norman HamiltonGUEST
He warned that the problem for farmers today will be the problems for consumers in six or twelve months' time because you see massively decreased yields for wheat and barley, and you see increasingly concerned voices coming from vegetable producers as well.
Norman HamiltonGUEST
For example, the wheat yields in the UK are down by around fourteen percent this year.
speaker_0NARRATOR
vaccine availability and access, how information and advice has been communicated with farmers, veterinarians and livestock markets, and on testing capacity and delays in providing results.
speaker_0NARRATOR
EFRA Chair Alistair Carmichael said farmers had suffered a summer of heartbreak and added, these sectors were already feeling immense pressure from droughts, heatwaves and wildfires as this disease began to spread.
speaker_0NARRATOR
There is widespread sentiment that our state agencies have been asleep at the wheel and that more could and should have been done before and during this outbreak.
speaker_0NARRATOR
According to DEFRA there are currently 2,217 potential cases of blue tongue under investigation in Great Britain.
Scott PepeCORRESPONDENT
Victoria Atkins at the Conservatives.
Scott PepeCORRESPONDENT
Alistair Carmichael at Liberal Democrats.
Scott PepeCORRESPONDENT
So again, that convening power of the NFU.
Scott PepeCORRESPONDENT
And it's about getting...
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