Category Archives: Lib Dem TV

Nick Clegg on the Andrew Marr Show tomorrow

By Helen Duffett | Published 21st January 2012 - 7:37 pm

Andrew Marr interviews Nick Clegg

Nick Clegg will be the main guest on tomorrow’s Andrew Marr Show, in the third of Marr’s major party leader New Year’s interviews.

You can watch the show 9am tomorrow on BBC1 or live online at the BBC website. Or catch it afterwards on BBC iPlayer.

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LDVideo: Nick Clegg visits Sheffield Forgemasters, launches £950m regional growth fund

By Helen Duffett | Published 31st October 2011 - 6:53 pm


Video also available at the Guardian website. Transcript below.

Nick Clegg travelled to Sheffield today to launch a £950m regional growth fund, including a £36m government loan to Sheffield Forgemasters.

From the BBC:

Deputy Prime Minister and Sheffield Hallam MP Nick Clegg said it would support apprenticeships and equipment.

The coalition had cancelled an £80m loan to Forgemasters to build parts for nuclear power stations as part of a review of Labour’s spending decisions.

Forgemasters said the newer, smaller loan would be used to prepare for

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LDVideo: Tavish Scott in Scottish Lib Dems’ latest election broadcast

By Helen Duffett | Published 27th April 2011 - 6:47 pm


Video also available on YouTube.

This evening, the Scottish Lib Dems’ latest election broadcast was shown on BBC1, BBC2 and STV. In it, Tavish Scott talks about Liberal Democrat successes in government at Westminster, and the Scottish Liberal Democrat plans for Scotland – providing jobs and economic growth, restoring excellence in education, and keeping services local.

In case you missed it, here’s the first Scottish Lib Dems’ election broadcast, from earlier this month, with Tavish Scott and Charles Kennedy:


Video also available on YouTube.

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LDVideo: Danny Alexander on the Government’s priorities for the budget

By Helen Duffett | Published 23rd March 2011 - 8:55 am


Video also available on YouTube.

According to Danny, the Government’s priorities are:

  • To build on the decisions taken in the emergency Budget last June, and in the Spending Review
  • To take steps that will help support the economy as it moves back to health again
  • To promote fairness during difficult economic times, e.g. increasing the personal tax allowance

There’ll be an open thread on Lib Dem Voice later this morning, where you can discuss Budget 2011.

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LDVideo: Spring Conference speeches by Tim Farron and Nick Clegg

By Helen Duffett | Published 17th March 2011 - 3:53 pm

Videos of Tim Farron’s rally speech and Nick Clegg’s closing speech to Conference are now online:


Video also available on YouTube here.


Video also available on YouTube here.

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LDVideo: A fairer, more democratic, greener, liberal country

By Helen Duffett | Published 22nd February 2011 - 9:43 am


Video also available on YouTube here.

In this short film from Channel 4′s “Political Slot” Tim Farron, Floella Benjamin, Chris Huhne, Paddy Ashdown and Steve Webb talk about what Liberal Democrats are doing to make Britain a fairer, more democratic, greener, liberal country.

Tim says,

Normally, if you like Liberal Democrat ideas, ideas is all they remain. But for the first time in 65 years, the Liberal Democrats are in power, making a huge difference.

…and with the help of his colleagues, sets out the changes the party wants to make over the next four …

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The Heart of the Party: what the LibDems stand for, 1995 version

By Mark Pack | Published 30th January 2011 - 1:55 pm

Back in 1995 the Liberal Democrats under Paddy Ashdown made a video explaining what the party stands for and why people should back it. If you’ve been around in the party a few years you can have some fun spotting familiar faces from 15 years ago (including a young Danny Alexander), and even if not it’s striking how well some of the points have aged:

Also on YouTube here.

Thanks to Pete Dollimore and Rob Fenwick for their help in rescuing this footage from an old video …

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Susan Kramer for Mayor of London – the 2000 party political broadcast

By Mark Pack | Published 16th January 2011 - 4:15 pm

Back in 2000, Susan Kramer was the first (and in many ways most successful) Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London. Here is her party political broadcast from that campaign, featuring several familiar faces including a young Mike Tuffrey and also Susan’s husband, John, who died tragically early in 2006:

Also available on YouTube here, and for a young Lembit Opik see here.

Thanks to Pete Dollimore and Rob Fenwick for their help in rescuing this footage from …

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Vince is the business on the dance floor

By Helen Duffett | Published 26th December 2010 - 3:28 pm

Business Secretary Vince Cable impressed the judges in the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special, scoring 36 points for a quickstep with Erin Boag.

The show, which was recorded before the Telegraph published Vince’s comments to their undercover reporters, was broadcast last night.

Vince revealed his nerves in an interview before the programme was broadcast, and said that he would not be watching on Christmas Day:

Going on Strictly was really quite scary. You know if you break down you risk making a fool of yourself. I was

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LDVideo: Andrew Stunell’s latest visit to Oldham East and Saddleworth

By Helen Duffett | Published 19th November 2010 - 6:37 pm

Government minister and Hazel Grove MP Andrew Stunell has already been to Oldham East and Saddleworth three weeks in a row to support Elwyn Watkins’ campaign and on his latest visit has recorded this message:

Video also available on YouTube here.

Full details and directions to Oldham East and Saddleworth campaign HQ are here.

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LDVideo: “Come to Oldham” edition

By Helen Duffett | Published 17th November 2010 - 5:35 pm

A twin travelogue treat to tempt Lib Dems to go and help in the Oldham East and Saddleworth election rerun:

If you choose your delivery round carefully, you can see some pretty scenery in the constituency – Chris Davies MEP gives us a glimpse of the countryside while urging us to turn up soon:

Video also available on Youtube here.

Next, Lib Dem President-elect Tim Farron takes us behind the scenes at Campaign HQ – those leaflets won’t deliver themselves…

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Don’t let anyone tell you it can’t be different: the second Lib Dem election broadcast

By Helen Duffett | Published 30th April 2010 - 6:40 pm

This Party Election Broadcast is much simpler than the first, with Nick Clegg doing a “talking head” for all but 20 seconds of it. The pared-down message is that the Liberal Democrats are different, and that voters have a choice.

The brief opening sequence is a montage of Lib Dem supporters saying,

This is my election. It isn’t up to politicians to decide who wins; it’s up to me.
Don’t tell me there are only two parties. And I choose something different this time.
My vote will make a difference.

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Believe in Fairness

By Mark Pack | Published 18th April 2010 - 9:24 pm

(Also on YouTube here.)

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Say goodbye to broken promises: the first Lib Dem election broadcast

By Mark Pack | Published 14th April 2010 - 6:06 pm

Here it is:

Nice use of simple format, but done in an energetic and interesting way. Striking contrast with Labour’s broadcast: Clegg is on screen all the time; Brown was absent from Labour’s.

Have fun speculating whether all those pieces of paper are CGI or whether some poor intern got the fun job of scattering and then gathering :-)

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The Leaders’ Wives obsession: why it’s missing the point

By Helen Duffett | Published 21st March 2010 - 9:23 pm

Tonight it’s Nick Clegg’s turn for a Sunday evening party leader’s interview – with Mary Nightingale on ITV1 at 10:15pm.

Miriam Gonzalez Durantez (Nick’s wife) also appears in the programme. At first I was dismayed that Miriam might be wheeled out as yet another politician’s wife, dreading revelations about socks or other foundation garments…

Until I watched her in this extract :

I don’t like that name: “political wife”. I’m the wife of a politician… I don’t have a role. I’m just married to him…

…It’s a personal choice and I think it’s perfectly possible to have a normal life

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