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We had gone to bed before Jo last night so we missed her interview on Peston:

I will do anything possible to stop Brexit says @joswinson and would only do a deal with a party who wanted to do the same #Peston pic.twitter.com/rmNNU5G9IN

— Peston (@itvpeston) June 19, 2019

.@joswinson says her party’s recent success has been down to its consistency, whereas Jeremy Corbyn has been ‘missing in action’. #Peston pic.twitter.com/sYCLsieehO

— Peston (@itvpeston) June 19, 2019

And a few hours later she was on Sky:

Shortly on @SkyNews to discuss modernising workplaces to work better for parents pic.twitter.com/8fHNsKUwec

— Jo Swinson (@joswinson) June 20, 2019

Then a message for World Refugee Day

With 70m people forcibly displaced around the world in 2018, #WorldRefugeeDay is a reminder of the vital role the UK must play in supporting people who have been forced to flee violence, persecution, & natural disasters. We can & must do betterhttps://t.co/iX8pJLnwzJ

— Jo Swinson (@joswinson) June 20, 2019

Both candidates have had their second emails sent out through the party. Jo’s comes from one of our new MEPs, Antony Hook:

It was a busy day for Jo too.

She was on the anti-Trump front line.

Trump’s state visit is an embarrassment. He's a danger to peace and a danger to our planet. He is the antithesis of everything we believe as @LibDems. Today we protest to stand up for all the people he's demeaned, and to show there is a positive, liberal alternative #TrumpProtest pic.twitter.com/b4oVFrnZQo

— Jo Swinson (@joswinson) June 4, 2019

As business minister, Jo introduced the scheme which saw employers who didn’t pay the minimum wage named and shamed. No surprise, then, that the Government is now trying to water it down.

She tackled the Minister during an Urgent Question on the matter in the Commons:

Naming and shaming employers who fail to pay even the basic minimum is one of the strongest ways that society can send a message that such behaviour is unacceptable. The Minister talks about the impact on employers of being named, but I am more concerned about the impact on workers who are underpaid—some of the most vulnerable people in our society. Whether it is deliberate or otherwise, they feel that impact. I recall the opposition that I had to face from the Minister’s Conservative colleagues when I was in her role and introduced this scheme. Will she give the House an assurance today that the review will include no watering down of the scheme to let employers off the hook, and will she name the date when the next round of naming will happen?

Then this evening a keynote speech on the future of Liberal Democracy at The Convention, an event highlighting the threat of social media and dark money to our democracy.

Jo’s speech is at 31:45 in.