Tag: leadership-election
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There’s one thing I meant to blog about following the announcement of the Lib Dem leadership which up until now I haven’t got around to. In an interview with Jon Sopel immediately after the leadership election result announcement on Tuesday, Chris Huhne yet again recited the rubric that the “Calamity Clegg” dossier was misnamed by…
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Pravdale writes: LibDem Voice should have been in its element today. But it hasn’t posted anything since the result 2.39pm and a Clegg Youtube video. Aren’t our yellow friends happy? Are they all getting hammered down the pub? Where’s the analysis, where’s the agenda for the future? This is why ConservativeHome is still streets ahead…
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Nick Clegg: 20988 (50.6%) Chris Huhne: 20477 (49.4%) Total votes cast: 41465 (64% approx) I should be hailing our new Liberal Democratic overlord over on Comment is Free imminently.
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If you didn’t hear my second bout with Dr Richard Grayson on the Westminster Hour, you can find it here (five weeks ago we were both resolutely sitting on the fence but I would have predicted that if anything I would have been the Huhney Monster and the Boy Wonder would have been the Clegghead…
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Whenever I hear about “conventional wisdom” it is time to take a reality check, particularly when it comes from the Tories. So, notwithstanding the fact that I do think Clegg needs to sharpen up his media act, let’s just consider another senior politician here for a second: David Cameron. I’m not comparing Clegg to Cameron,…