Sir Ed Davey said the Liberal Democrats are on course to become the new party of Middle England, as the party eyes major gains in traditional Conservative heartlands amid local election losses for both Tories and Labour. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00The Liberal Democrats are very confident. We're hearing great things across the country.
00:04Here in Shropshire, we're very confident of winning lots of seats from the Conservatives
00:09following on from our win in North Shropshire and coming very close to winning South Shropshire
00:13from the Conservatives. We're now in marginal Lib Dem Conservative seats. I think we can
00:16really do well here in Shropshire, hearing great things from Oxfordshire, from Devon,
00:20from around the country. I think after all the results are in, it'll be the Liberal Democrats
00:24as a new party of Middle England. We are very confident of doing incredibly well. People
00:29have seen what people like Helen Morgan do. You elect a Liberal Democrat, you get a local
00:33champion who's going to stand up for the community and actually get things done. And across the
00:37country, people are turning to the Liberal Democrats. People have lost faith in politics, but they
00:42like our style of politics where we're community politicians from the community and work really
00:47hard. So very excited about that. Well, on the doorsteps that I've been on, people are turning
00:51to the Liberal Democrats from both Labour and Conservative. The Conservative vote is in meltdown
00:57and it's coming to the Liberal Democrats. I think lifelong Conservatives now see us as
01:01a party that best represents their values, whether it's on the economy, on health, or on things
01:07like standing up against President Trump. So I'm confident that we can replace the Conservatives
01:13as a party of Middle England. There's no doubt people are very disappointed by Labour and we're
01:18getting a lot of support from Labour too. I think the more people hear about what Nigel Farage
01:22stands for, the more they won't like it. So that's what I found on the doorsteps. People
01:26don't like the fact that he wants to privatise the NHS. They don't like the fact that he thinks
01:31Vladimir Putin is the world leader he most admires. And then when you come to President
01:36Trump, wasn't it interesting in the election, he didn't talk about Donald Trump or Elon Musk.
01:42Now the polls will close. He's saying he wants their policies in every local town. Well, that's
01:46not really how you should do politics. And I think he'll get found out.