Daisy Cooper

The Lib Dems are trying to get ahead of it, the leadership anyway.

Daisy Cooper, the deputy leader of the party, saying in the last few minutes, the vast majority of Lib Dem MPs support Ed Davey, want him to lead the party into the next election and are furious at this distraction.

But it does look like it is going to be something of a distraction anyway.

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That's Nick Eardley, our political correspondent.

So, clearly the Lib Dems have decided that the way to spin this is to get a statement out nice and quickly from Daisy Cooper, the deputy leader of the Lib Dems, saying the vast majority of our MPs support Ed, want him to lead the party to the next election and are furious at this distraction.

What's the right way? I mean, James, when you were working for Jeremy Corbyn, you had a certain amount of this sort of thing happening, people resigning en masse.

Um, just on a note with this, um, there have, there's been a market on the next Lib Dem leader for quite a while.

Um, and at the moment, Daisy Cooper leads that both fixed odds and also, um, on the exchanges.

Um, it looks as if she's going to go a favorite for whenever that happens.

I think Ed Davey's probably got until the next set of local elections on that note.

Um, also with Lib Dems, there's two quick strands of the party.

One is aware that they are an undercover party by any margin, um, and also that they might possibly have peaked, and the other is looking for them to do something different considering the rise of the Greens Reform Restore and to get more attention.

At the moment, I think the value play might be looking at who might be value and go shorter, who isn't Daisy Cooper yet, but she's the right favorite to take over from Ed Davey should or w- if he leaves.

Neil, I would like to challenge you to name the next five best Liberal Democrat candidates after Daisy Cooper.

Actually, you're echoing something that Isaac Levido said yesterday at the Telegraph drinks with regard to those MPs, and St Albans a prime example.

My father lives there, and I went to school there, so I'm familiar with the delights of Daisy Cooper and co.

And, um, actually, Levido is saying that when we say we need to lean into trying to win back the Lib Dems, we're not saying that it should be a Lib Dem agenda.

Yes.

But beware of what comes after.

I think Daisy Cooper is quite a good operator.

I think she's a serious player.

And I think if they do get rid of him, she will end up winning it.

But if there was, who would it come from? I mean, I follow politics.

And if you held a gun to my head and said, name prominent Lib Dems, after Davey, I've got Daisy Cooper and Leila Moran.

And that's it.

Who else? You know, who are the contenders? Who are the people that are making waves?

So that the right leader could really give a sense of energy and possibility.

Well, there was, there was, there was a bit of talk around the conference about whether they needed to replace Ed Davey with Daisy Cooper.

Daisy Cooper was very, very clear, not interested.

Ed's gonna be there till the election.

Is Daisy Cooper the kind of, the Mamdani, Burnham figure they need?

She's got... [laughs] She's got a bit of fire in her belly.

Anyway, they're not in a great place, but as you say, they should be in a better place.

So they want to do the same with AI, a non-proliferation treaty.

Ed Davey's deputy is a woman called Daisy Cooper.

She was on Politics Live today, BBC television.

Well, that has to be the aspiration, absolutely.

We absolutely should have an international treaty, an international organization.

I mean, the global pause until that treaty is in place.

I wonder, does Daisy Cooper know that there was a treaty? A treaty.

I had a history teacher one time who deliberately mispronounced basic words, you know, just to be a dipstick.