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Lucy Powell

What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.

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Lucy Powell is saying that the Liberal Democrats have not presented clear or practical plans for running the government or holding leadership roles. She implies that without such plans, they lack a serious strategy to gain or exercise political power.

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