we are reminded that back in 2017 the seat of sheffield hallam that at the time was in the possession talking about these tv debates, the man who really got the breakthrough was nick clegg in 2010. what did he do right that others might sense not have done right? he had quite an easy positioning in 2010 actually because you had to my old parties and the liberal democrats and he could be the guy who put them both in a box and said, the two old parties, this boring way of doing things, if the two of them thought about stuff he could just then say, the two old people having then say, the two old people having the same old argument, let's have real change. so when you talked to david cameron's or gordon brown because my advisers, they both said they realise that actually in rehearsals nick clegg was going to get all of the best lines and they had given him a huge gift by letting him be there in the first place —— they both said they realised. but he performed very well to stop he was very human, very relaxed, made the point of little things, talking to the people who had asked the questio

a result and the general election because the former deputy prime minister lost his seat in sheffield hallam let's talk a bit about that with felicity matthews from the university of sheffield. let's talk about that festival. when you look at the televised debates, it was nick clegg who got the most out of the debates. in 2010, for one moment he was riding so high in the policy was more popular than winston churchill! and it shows you what a difference a debate can make. it was not to last as we saw in 2017. it is throwing up surprises in recent years, notably on brexit because the other northern cities all lean slightly towards remain, this one bucked the trend. it voted to leave in all constituencies apart from sheffield hallam which was eight remain voting constituency, that makes it really interesting because the lib dems are looking to make their comeback to that seat, and since day one following the last general election they have been campaigning hard on they have been campaigning hard on the ground to their candidates are very familiar underground. ian was telling us about the make—u

want to watch is just winston's own seat she needs to remember what happened to nick clegg in sheffield hallam when he was leader and he last i've ever is is supposed to say if the tories get 320 seats out above their breaks that happens. $100.00 comfortable majority $315.00 we're going to be back here in the new year for another election and 3 term of below you're talking about a rainbow coalition or perhaps a tartan turns red bull coalition is it as simple as that and those are numbers of seats no personals needs to have a majority in the overall majority to push through otherwise we're going to be powerless just as we have been and will be back in a few months the lib dems have made another mistake they said they will not go into coalition with anybody else clearly starting from the last time which means they've written themselves out of the script they're no one can depend on their support so it's really down to whether boris johnson has enough of his own allies in his own party to push through and for that he definitely needs a big majority or gentleman i don't know if the electorate are

in 2017 the six seats all went towards labour but one of them sheffield hallam was the seat of formertish public as a whole, putting the question is that it literally politicians even though the parties are of different sizes they get the same amount of time, 30 minutes each and what is interesting is when the public asking questions directly the about necessarily having a go at each other. it is a big focus on the question of individual leadership and competence, how much for the public be able to trust with a as seen at the message they are delivering. you have done that beautifully but we do have your phone. cue yourfilm. let‘s hope tonight is more smooth than this is. he is not there. there are obviously some grim ones in the studio so apologies if you are meeting to see the room, it will be all right on the night. the takeaway i think from the itv debate, two things, the spontaneous laughter that both jeremy things, the spontaneous laughter that bothjeremy corbyn and boris johnson expedia and the lack of trust that came through from the audience. the question specifically on trus