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And I think it's fair to say that
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somewhere along the way there is a sense
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now that the Liberal Democrats are just
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another kind of center-left,
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you know, kind of offshoot of of of
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mainstream labor thinking just generally
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that kind of territory. Are you up for a
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bit more of a kind of energetic
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relationship with enterprise?
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Yeah, absolutely. And look, we consider
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ourselves to occupy a very distinctive
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political space. I completely reject the
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kind of even the framing of the question
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are we center left or center right. We
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are distinctly liberal. So we have sort
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of one strand of our history which is
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fighting the corn laws fighting Brexit
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being very pro-enterprise. Um seeing the
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relationship between uh you know
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government and private sector hand in
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hand. We saw that in coalition when uh
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in government when Ed Davyy was you know
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launching the green investment bank and
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the British business bank as well. But
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there is another strand to our history
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as well. You know, we are the party that
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rolled out the old age pension. We are
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the party that um created the idea of
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free school meals. And we are the party
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that conceived of the idea of the
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National Health Service, then later
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rolled out by a Labor government. So we
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do have these two strands in our liberal
