Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Lib Dem Bristol Mayor candidate Dr Caroline Gooch, on scrapping the mayor and winning from the centre

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs 19th April, 2021

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Caroline Gooch is hoping for a dramatic improvement on the party’s 2016 result of 8,000 votes to clinch the mayoralty, and then work to scrap it by referendum in three years. Neil and Caroline talk about her professional background in the pharmaceutical industry, being the only woman in the running and what the Lib Dems are offering voters.

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Janer Cyster

April 20, 2021 at 8:53 am

If they going to scrap it do it at beginning of the mayeral role not at the end wwhen they have had their term

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