Rehsuffles, reasonable Liberal Democrats and Jo Swinson’s rising star: Guardian podcast

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Rehsuffles, reasonable Liberal Democrats and Jo Swinson’s rising star: Guardian podcast

By Mark Pack | Fri 7th September 2012 - 8:56 am

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This week’s Politics Weekly podcast from The Guardian features, ahem, myself alongside Dan Sabbagh, Juliette Jowit and Tom Clark. Amazingly, we talked reshuffle, then reshuffle and a bit more reshuffle, including how Jo Swinson is now one of the party’s main rising stars.

All three of the Guardianistas are their own people with their own views, yet I was struck how between them they didn’t particularly paint the reshuffle as a lurch to the right – more a nudge of a few points – and also how they were relatively kind to the Liberal Democrats too. Not quite the collective Guardian viewpoint of cliché.

Listen and enjoy when I get berated for being too reasonable, boo when I commit the sin of answering a question with an acronym and find out what I like about what Labour is doing…

Listen too for what both Dan Sabbagh and Juliette Jowit have to say about new minister Maria Miller; they are both rather complimentary which I suspect will surprise quite a few people.

You can listen to the podcast here.

* Mark Pack is Party President and is the editor of Liberal Democrat Newswire.

Read more by Mark Pack or more about Dan Sabbagh, Jo Swinson, Juliette Jowit, maria miller or tom clark.
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