Most politicians try to avoid slips, stumbles and undignified photos. Not Ed Davey. The leader of Britain’s centrist Liberal Democrats has turned the country’s general election campaign into a showreel of self-deprecating fun.
Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey , 3rd from left, during a visit to Thorpe Park in Chertsey, England, whilst on the General Election campaign trail, Monday June 10, 2024. Britain’s Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey falls into the water while paddleboarding on Lake Windermere, in Windermere, England, Tuesday, May 28, 2024, while on the general election campaign trail.
And while Davey’s pratfalls have been zany, his first election broadcast was heartfelt. Davey talked in the video about losing his father when he was four, and a decade later caring for his mother when she had terminal cancer. He spoke of the joys and challenges of looking after his disabled teenage son, John, who has a neurological disorder.
In Carshalton, where urban south London shades into leafy suburbia, office worker Connor Filsell, an undecided voter, drew a blank until a reporter mentioned the rollercoaster episode.Many houses in Carshalton display orange Lib Dem signs supporting local candidate Bobby Dean. The party lost to the Conservatives here by just 600 votes in 2019, and aims to win it back, along with other Conservative-held seats in the south and southwest of England.
Davey was a minister in the coalition government, and gets awkward questions about his role between 2010 and 2012 overseeing the state-owned Post Office at a time when its executives were
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