Ed Davey defended by Lib Dem MP on ‘daft’ campaign antics: ‘We take politics very seriously’

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Ed Davey was defended by Liberal Democrat MP Daisy Cooper on his 'daft' campaign antics: ‘We take politics very seriously’.Source: PA / Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, BBC

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00:00 Daisy, who won the week? Isn't there a risk that your leader looks a bit daft doing all these antics?
00:04 No, hands down, Ed Davey has won the week.
00:06 Not only has he been having a lot of fun, but all of those stunts are designed to deliver a message.
00:11 And so when he was falling into Lake Windermere, he was obviously delivering our message
00:13 about how we've led the campaign to tackle raw sewage dumping.
00:17 When he was at the water park, he was raising awareness of our pledge
00:19 to have a mental health practitioner in every single primary and secondary school.
00:23 So we take our politics very seriously,
00:25 but we also think that we don't have to take ourselves that seriously.

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