“A Liberal Democrat you can imagine sitting in a cabinet.”
There’s an excellent article about the leadership election by Andrew Rawnsley in this Sunday’s Observer.
The stability, authority and unity candidate is Sir Menzies Campbell. It is a testimony to the respect in which he is held that he enjoys the support of so many MPs as well as two former leaders.
For a Conservative party trying to rejuvenate its appeal, it made huge sense to select a young leader. The Lib Dems’ problem is their credibility gap. There is a strong case that, for them, an older leader is precisely what they need to convey gravitas.
Authority and certainty seem to me to be a powerful asset in a fluxing and risk-strewn political environment for the third party.
