. board member calum robertson. there we are now. in four weeks time, we will know which party will lead the country for the next five long years. will it be rishi sunak forced to apologise today for bailing out of d—day commemorations.7 keir starmer well, he wants your vote but is he too wooden to win a tv debate 7 he too wooden to win a tv debate ? ed he too wooden to win a tv debate .7 ed davey went baking with schoolchildren this week. as you do. and will he be trusted, though, to cook your books .7 and though, to cook your books? and nigel farage has returned to frontline politics as certainly shaken things up. will he win your vote for the reform party? well, it's all to play for and we'll discuss the last big week in politics right after your latest news headlines. and it's sam francis . sam francis. >> martin, thank you very much. and good evening to you. it's just after 7:00. we will start with news from the election campaign trail. the prime minister has been heckled in wiltshire as he resumed his campaign

conservative mp for erewash denis macshane, former labour mp and minister of state for europe, and calum robertsonidate and liberal democrats federal board member. where to start? let's start with you. this time, calum. so we appear to be reaching that fabled crossover point the moment that nigel farage said would happen. few didn't believe it would happen. could we? now nibbling two points behind? that was the most recent polling. now with rishi sunak d—day moment and the debate to come, do you expect there could be a possibility that reform could overtake the tories ? tories? >> i think yes, there is a statistical possibility that might happen, but i think we'll still see reform winning no seats. and let me tell you why. because reform, if you look at the topology so, so almost the, the, statistics behind it reforms have broad support but it's very thin. so they don't actually have a lot of areas where the pockets of support particularly high. and i can speak to nigel farage is constituency quite well because i stood in clacton in 2019, i stood there and i spoke to thousands of how many votes di

. board member calum robertson. lead the country for the next five long years. will it be rishi sunak forced to apologise today for bailing out of d—day commemorations? keir starmer well, he wants your vote but is he too wooden to win a tv debate 7 he too wooden to win a tv debate ? ed davey went baking with schoolchildren this week. as you do. and will he be trusted, though, to cook your books ? and though, to cook your books? and nigel farage has returned to frontline politics as certainly shaken things up. will he win your vote for the reform party? well, it's all to play for and we'll discuss the last big week in politics right after your latest news headlines. and it's sam francis . sam francis. >> martin, thank you very much. and good evening to you. it's just after 7:00. we will start with news from the election campaign trail. the prime minister has been heckled in wiltshire as he resumed his campaigning this evening. rishi sunak was discussing economic track record among the conservatives when a doctor shou

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neil parish, the former conservative mp ayesha ali khan, a labour campaigner, and calum robertson of liberal democrats, neil, we'll start with you. this is a bit of a strange story to be discussing. it's the first time i can remember in terms of scandals , that the party is, is scandals, that the party is, is just sort of saying it's all made up. >> yeah. i mean , i think what we >> yeah. i mean, i think what we need to do is sort of get to the bottom of this, don't we? i mean, if these comments were made and they were made by, a reform activist, then they are very bad because, i mean, the last thing you want to do is stir up any racial problems whatsoever. and certainly by doing it when you're canvassing is very wrong. so i think this will be interesting as it unravels. i'm not going to make judgement at the moment on exactly who's right and who's wrong on this one. but what we don't want is racist comments from anybody, basically, and so, you know, and i have, you know, when you go out canvassing and i've done a lot in my time, you do meet people on the doorstep that have very stro

calum robertson, a federal board member of the liberal democrats, joins us now, calum isn't one of thepopulation . they got a growing population. they get overwhelmed. it's hard to see how to fix this without spending tens of billions of pounds. >> hi. >> hi. >> thank you so much for having me, i can see see your point. this is about addressing some of the damages we can sort of control. and actually, the main problem we're seeing in, in our research around the sewage issue that we brought to the fore as a party a couple of years ago, is, is that actually this is companies that have chosen to dump. they're under no obugafion dump. they're under no obligation to them. they can invest their profits in things like sewage treatment, etc, making that discharge safe, but they're choosing not to. so what this plan is this plan is about holding our water companies to account, making sure that they it's not about sort of the wider water infrastructure. it's more about holding those damaging water companies that are damaging environmental places on the coastline, such as eastbourne and eastleigh,