iain watson reporting there. 0ur political correspondent jonathan blake is at westminster. let s talk about the liberal democrats for us. they have argued for quite a while that the next election is notjust about the redwall, it is about the blue wall, and they can make inroads into its sub is this really according to ed davey assigned that that blue wall could come doubling down? you only have to look could come doubling down? you only have to look at could come doubling down? you only have to look at the could come doubling down? you only have to look at the pictures - could come doubling down? you only have to look at the pictures in - could come doubling down? you only have to look at the pictures in the i have to look at the pictures in the report there to see that is what the lib dems are intending to do. and i think for them, it goes beyond a kind of neat political metaphor, if you like, because there are a good couple of dozen seeds which are on the lib dems target list w
counted on for strong support. so there is no doubt that the liberal democrats will certainly be buoyed by this result, they will be encouraged and cheered by the scale of the majority that they were able to pull in from voters in chesham and amersham completing the conservatives into a pretty distant second place. the greens in third, labour absolutely nowhere to be seen. but the result of by elections are always interesting, they throw up are always interesting, they throw up the odd political upset like this. the big question remains, how much can they tell us about how voters are thinking and how they might vote, whether it be a general election soon in other parts of the country? local issues will always come to play as well. country? local issues will always come to play as well. lots of talk locally about come to play as well. lots of talk locally about h52 come to play as well. lots of talk locally about h52 and come to play as well. lots of talk locally about h52 and pl
almost bet that seat will go back to the conservatives at the next election because i think boris johnson is quite deft at pivoting in politics at the moment and at the moment he is focused on seats like hartlepool and batley and we have another election coming in west yorkshire onjuly the 1st but i don t really think people are chesham and amersham were voting against conservatives because they are concerned about the government s rhetoric on flags or statues but i think it was a very specific set of local issues anything the conservatives to potentially face longer term problems and there are economic and cultural things to look at in the future but right now i still think the nearest thing to a one nation party that can appeal to all parts of the uk are still the conservatives. white like i sincerely hope you re going to eat your heart like one of your colleagues who made a prediction about this by election and he got it wrong! and you are convinced it will go back to the tories at
the people can t vote and hand out water bottles at these voting places. but, you know, something must be done about the italians rigging the i election. something has to be done. so that is part of the strategy. to create so much doubt, so, so much doubt. this is the authoritarian playbook. how much is affected by the fact that donald trump will be banned from platform in two years. and then they ll re-evaluate wlnt they can bring him back on the platform or ban him further? what about that? sure, in 2023, facebook is going to face the real decision. if they say they ll re-evaluate this, talk to experts, unclear who the experts are. but they ll touk to experts if they still allow donald trump back on the platform. if you re donald trump, can you
summit deliverables of a new agreement on this or that or the other. quite the opposite. great point. our team is showing the toughness in the whole reason for the conversation. i do think that it s been a divisive decision in a way for biden to meet so early with putin especially that putin has ratcheted up, you know, not only words but rhetoric and is matched by a new wave of cyber attacks in the u.s. it s really as difficult a moment in u.s.-russian relations as i can recall. that s a really interesting way of putting it. and just as a reminder, i know you remember this moment. we talked about it many times. i want to play what happened the last time a president met with putin when president trump met with putin and was asked about another attack coming from russia on the 2016 i election. president putin said it s not russia. i will will say this. i don t see any reason why it would be. no, despite all the walk backs, we know where this