‘Damp squib’: Ed Davey can breathe easy as Lib Dem leadership challenge fails to materialise
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What happened
Lengthy meeting heard grumbles about ‘blue wall’ policies and ‘Ming vase’ tactics but no real rancour As political showdowns go, this week’s gathering of Liberal Democrat MPs, billed by some as a crunch moment for Ed Davey, was a touch underwhelming. “I had expected a damp squib,” one attender put it. “It was damper than I thought.” Far from generating a mass of opposition to Davey’s leadership, let alone a formal c…
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