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Caron Lindsay

Jo Swinson shines in Andrew Neil interview

By Caron Lindsay | Thu 5th December 2019 - 5:58 am

Jo Swinson was 3 when Jeremy Corbyn became an MP in 1983. That longer experience did not help him when he faced Andrew Neil last week. He was tin-eared, evasive and failed to connect with the audience.

Boris Johnson can’t even be bothered to show up.

In contrast, Jo was amazing tonight. Neil didn’t hold back, asking her some very tough questions. She answered every single one with clarity, competence and candour. She was very clear that she hadn’t got it right on everything  in the coalition and said the word that politicians so rarely use – sorry.

At the same time, she articulated a proper, liberal, internationalist message, showing how we are open, generous spirited and inclusive.

I have known Jo for long enough to know that she never gives up. Our election campaign has not seen the rise in the polls we deserve, given that we have a manifesto that is more redistributive than Labour’s, is the most economically competent and is much better on social justice than anyone else’s. A lesser leader could have turned their face to the wall. That is not Jo’s style. She and we will keep fighting for every single vote right up until 10pm next Thursday night.

Here are her best bits:

And we can stop Brexit We did it twice and we can do it for good:

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Paul Walter

Jo Swinson is impressive under the Andrew Neil grilling

By Paul Walter | Wed 4th December 2019 - 10:17 pm

Jo Swinson gave a very impressive performance under the grilling of Andrew Neil this evening on primetime BBC1. (You can view it here).

She was confident, offering contrition on the mistakes of the coalition and outlining the Liberal Democrat positions clearly.

There are plenty of past examples of car crash interviews with Andrew Neil at the helm. Jo did very well under his forensic questioning.

Here’s a selection of tweets reacting to tonight’s programme:

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Caron Lindsay

Tim’s Andrew Neil Interview discussion thread.

By Caron Lindsay | Thu 1st June 2017 - 9:10 pm

I am just this minute in from a night’s canvassing and haven’t yet watched Tim Farron’s interview with Andrew Neil.

I will do so in a bit and add in some commentary here but you may wish to discuss it in the meantime.

It’s available on iPlayer here if you haven’t seen it either.

So, I’m going to watch it and comment as I go.

Neil starts provocatively,  stating that we wanted to have our laws made in Brussels and have no control of our borders. Tim wisely immediately responded by saying that it was important that we give the people the final say on the Brexit deal.

If Theresa May is making a choice about the most extreme choice of Brexit, people should have the say over it, he said. 

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