Join former Conservative minister Sam Gyimah on the campaign trail in Kensington where he is standing as the candidate for the Liberal Democrats.
Just over a year ago sam fema was a conservative minister serving in the government but today he’s standing is a liberal democrat in the seat of kensington you ready are you telling people that you were a conservative they all know is that it’s actually helping you in some ways get those do you know what it’s a very politically engaged constituency and i have huge
Name recognition on the doorsteps and because people know they know my story they know when i resigned as a minister they know i was one of the 21 who rebelled against new deal we we’ve got potentially hard left government and a hard brexit government both of them are extreme and we need a sensible party in the middle you know boris johnson will say that he needs
The biggest majority ever but he stumbling with our economic future what was sam like as a student at school thoroughly professional very talented obviously model student really well-behaved of course johnson i was a minister i resigned because of britain if i wanted to look after myself out of state as a minister yeah here we are talk about a whole nation
To stop brick city but we will will be a break on the extremes what he’s saying about he can’t vote for either that is that is common what is not common is to say he won’t vote that is not common we’re undecided we are conservative don’t we definitely i can honestly say not wanting to go labour we’d like the platforms of the lib dem but without the majority we
Are fearful that if you don’t win the majority of which i think the polls are saying you won’t that things could go arrive and majority to deliver whatever breaks it that he reads i feel like i’ll be fatigued i feel tired but it’s all gonna wait i mean you feel tired but it’s not going to end and giving in because we feel we’re exhausted is what he wants thank
You very much for your time and good luck to you working for someone who was a conservative minister i don’t see it as anything different because i was a conservative previously i was cameron at conservative and then i switched when the party decided it was very sort of leave based i think unfortunately i think some some reasons for moving was so noble do you
Sympathize with those that were out there that we’ve spoken to you don’t like breakfast but they also really don’t like jeremy gordon yeah i mean i can see where they’re coming and i know that people are very scared of jeremy corbyn but at the end of the day it’s pretty obvious within you know that this this election is not about that it is basically about whether
You want to leave the european union or not people want to see a second referendum they don’t necessarily want to just cancel brexit together yeah has people been raising that as the concern um to tell you the truth it’s yes but not not and not a lot the confusion is this kind of people are thinking actually the conception is not my party am i really a lib dem
This sense that the political world has been realigned and people are having to make different choices is one that is kind of quite uncomfortable quite torturous do you feel like a lib dem in your heart having been a conservative for so long oh yes i mean because the conservative bodies change politics is changing is a realignment going on and this election is
Happening in the midst of that and in many ways we’re not immune to what is happening in other western democracies you know we’ve seen it with trump in the us and what i’m standing for is we can stop the madness here we can’t stop it we must stop
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