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Kirsty Williams: We go into this election as the smallest opposition party which has delivered more than anyone else

By NewsHound | Sun 10th April 2016 - 9:54 am

Kirsty Williams came in for some pretty aggressive questioning from BBC Radio Wales’ Jason Mohammad the other day. He was not interested in giving her any opportunity to explain what she stood for. All he wanted to do was to talk about how badly the Liberal Democrats were doing in all sorts of elections.

She handled it all very coolly, talking about how Brecon and Radnorshire was now lumbered with a Tory MP who was perfectly happy to vote for cuts to tax credits and disability benefits. She talked about what the Liberal Democrats has achieved in the Assembly despite being the smallest opposition group and how we were winning council by-elections again.

You can watch the whole thing here:

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