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On Thursday night, Shelagh Fogarty and I spent seven hours presenting LBC’s election night coverage. Tim Montgomerie, Damian McBride and our resident Elections Analyst Gareth Knight were with us for the whole night and we were also joined for a lot of it by the LibDem pundit Miranda Green, with guest appearances by Peter Hain and Lord Ashcroft.
We all had great fun. The show was pacy, energetic and I think full of insight. I had a lot of people get in touch to say they were listening to us with the sound down on the TV. In fact, during the entire 7 hours we had no negative feedback at all, apart from one bloke who told me to shut up because I was boring, at a time when I hadn’t spoken for ten minutes! I was also very pleased that not a single person accused me of any bias during the seven hours. I admit to cheering when I heard George Galloway had lost his seat, but I think the rest of the country did too.
Shelagh and I were fronting the programme, but the people who did all the hard work behind the scenes were Matt Harris, Jagruti Dave, Rachel Humphreys, Axel Kacoutie, James H Wilson, Talya-Rose Varga, Will Gavin, Adrian Sherling and Neil Brennan. And thanks to our brilliant newsreader Dominic Byrne.
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