Lib Dems leader, Sir Ed Davey, has said it's important his MPs repay voters' trust, admitting the party has lost trust over the years. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00It's very important that Liberal Democrat MPs repay the trust that people have put in them.
00:06I think the party lost trust in the past, like many other parties have, and we've worked really hard to rebuild that.
00:12And I think, whether it was the by-elections in the last parliament or local elections,
00:16and now the general election success to be our largest number of MPs for over 100 years,
00:21the key thing is we repay that trust and earn it day after day, actually.
00:27And so the NHS and care was what we campaigned on, and sewage and the cost of living.
00:32And it's important those MPs are champions for their local constituencies on those issues.
00:38And if they are, I think we can hold them.
00:41I think a mature opposition, a constructive opposition, has to have the ability to say,
00:46yeah, we do agree with that.
00:48So, for example, investing in renewable energy, we agree with that.
00:52And we will support the government, and we want them to be even more ambitious, actually.
00:56But, you know, there are things we disagree on, and we've already seen that.
00:59The withdrawal of winter fuel payment from millions of struggling pensioners,
01:03when the cost of living is going to get worse, energy bills are going to get higher this winter.
01:07I'm really worried about that.
01:09And we campaigned in the election on the cost of living.
01:12So, you know, we need to hold the government to account and say that's wrong.
01:16But where we can be more constructive than the Conservatives and a better opposition than the Conservatives
01:21is not just oppose, but also say what we would do.
01:24So we're taking a different tone.
01:26We're not doing the Yabu politics of the Conservatives.
01:29We're trying to be constructive and having alternatives.
01:32And that is maybe a new style of opposition.
01:34I think it's a better style.
01:36Well, it's interesting, the Albania solution that the Italians haven't done yet, actually,
01:41but are planning, as I understand it, it looks quite different from the Rwanda scheme
01:45that the Conservatives had, which was so expensive and failed miserably.
01:51If you remember, the Conservatives spent hundreds of millions of pounds and failed totally.
01:56So that Rwanda scheme failed.
01:58And we mustn't do any scheme that mirrors that scheme.
02:02I'm told the Italian one doesn't.
02:04There are changes.
02:05Let's see the details and look at that.