Ed Davey’s slick publicity strategy is working. Today the LibDem leader fell into the water no fewer than five times while paddle-boarding in Windermere with Tim Farron. That’s enough goes to get a few good camera angles for the broadcasters…
As usual almost everyone has fallen for it. The only way for the LibDems to get people to notice their party conference last September was for Davey to get pushed off a canoe by a candidate. Sunak was just following the real trailblazer…
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”