Ed Davey
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Oct 28, 2026
Henry PakerHOST
Swiss Margaret.
Henry PakerHOST
It's Ed Davey.
Henry PakerHOST
But yeah, sorry, Ed
Mike WozniakHOST
Davey.
Mike WozniakHOST
Ed Davey's is, yeah, his boat going aquatic form,
Benjamin PartridgeHOST
isn't it? He's got many guises.
Benjamin PartridgeHOST
There's also the Midnight Reaper.
Dan HodgesGUEST
That is the same for Kemi Badenoch.
Dan HodgesGUEST
That is the same for Ed Davey.
Dan HodgesGUEST
It is not the same for Nigel Farage.
Dan HodgesGUEST
The polls are very, very clear.
Jess Brown-FullerPANELIST
You mean a bit
Iain DaleHOST
like Ed Davey was in the last general election?
Jess Brown-FullerPANELIST
Well, it cut through.
Jess Brown-FullerPANELIST
You keep talking about the last general election.
Damien WilleyHOST
On the 15th of October, its Vice President, Karen Newman, welcomed Labour's decision to threaten council administrations with collapse if they worked with the Greens, and said the organisation had been pressing for this very commitment.
Damien WilleyHOST
She urged other parties to take the same position, and before long, Ed Davey bungee-jumped the Lib Dems into following suit.
Damien WilleyHOST
Labour took the bait, so now it gets to explain why council deals should depend on Green councillors publicly disowning their own members' decisions.
Damien WilleyHOST
Good luck flogging that to the electorate.
Ben Riley-SmithGUEST
And when he made hard, difficult decisions, that one, it would all come apart.
Ben Riley-SmithGUEST
Even Ed Davey was looking for the big decisions to be made.
Ben Riley-SmithGUEST
Their argument is they would say...
Ben Riley-SmithGUEST
Okay, he's talking about the European Union.
HilaryHOST
She called it a silly thing to do.
HilaryHOST
Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, joked that Churchill deserves better than to be replaced by a badger.
HilaryHOST
And Nigel Farage called the plans PC gone mad and loony and democracy at work.
HilaryHOST
Well, we wouldn't want any of that, would we? Democracy? To some extent, to me, this illustrates the problem with politicians.
Rupert HarrisonGUEST
And I think that feeds into this issue around a potential early election and why investors have this on their radar, which is that if you look at Andy Burnham's conference speech There were three big issues in that speech which were framed as post-election issues, all of which are sort of almost like a love letter to the Liberal Democrats.
Rupert HarrisonGUEST
So a commitment to electoral reform, social care reform, which is a big personal priority for Ed Davey, and getting closer to the European Union.
Rupert HarrisonGUEST
And it just feels a little bit like this is preparing the ground for a potential Labour-Lib Dem coalition after an election, or at least as a fallback option.
Rupert HarrisonGUEST
And I think, therefore, that's just kind of raising the possibility in many people's minds of an early election.
Jon GauntHOST
What's his name? I've forgotten.
Jon GauntHOST
Ed Davey.
Jon GauntHOST
Just a joke.
Jon GauntHOST
Just a joke.
Damien WilleyHOST
She welcomed Labour's position and urged other mainstream parties to follow suit.
Damien WilleyHOST
So cue Ed Davey bungee jumping in on their coattails.
Damien WilleyHOST
And what then do the councillors end up denouncing then? A convention resolution that was adopted by a majority of 1,022 to 813? Many members voted against it, sure, but the motion was carried.
Damien WilleyHOST
That's democracy in action, is it not? So Labour is essentially saying to its local partners, you have to accept what we think of your party's policy or the agreement you negotiated with us ends up up for grabs again.
12 MINS LATER
Damien WilleyHOST
And of course that leads on nicely from the media too, our national leaders who face the same dilemma when advising their local colleagues on who they should not work
Andy BurnhamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
with.
Damien WilleyHOST
In Birmingham, for example, ITV Central have reported that Liberal Democrat council leader Roger Harmer remained committed to an administration with Greens and Independents, all despite Ed Davey's rejection of a national partnership and his demand for local repudiation.
Damien WilleyHOST
In other words, he's not endorsed every word of the motion, but he has an administration to conduct.
Big MajHOST
The rejoin stuff, yeah.
Big MajHOST
Because Ed Davey's facing a mutiny inside the party anyways.
Big MajHOST
What is it? Because Ed Davey's trash, yeah.
Big MajHOST
There's issues with the party.
Big MajHOST
Someone resigned from their front bench recently over it.
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