Labour and the Liberal Democrats w/ David Laws

09/17/24 • 34 min

In this episode of the podcast Will is joined by David Laws, former Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Liberal Democrat MP for Yeovil from 2001 to 2015 to discuss his new book Serpents, Goats and Turkeys: A Century of Liberal–Labour Relations. They discuss the original 1903 Liberal - Labour pact, known as the MacDonald/Gladstone pact, why the Liberals failed to make gains in 1945 whilst Labour won a landslide, the SDP - Liberal Alliance of the 1980s and the Liberal- Labour Pact of 1977 - 1978.

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