Perspective: Do the Lib Dems Have the Leader to Govern

Birmingham Post › September 23, 2005

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Return to your constituencies and prepare for Government!

So said David Steel, the former Liberal leader, in the run-up to the 1984 election. The remark is now seen as a terrible political gaffe, although at the time it didn't seem quite so far-fetched.

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Perspective: Do the Lib Dems Have the Leader to Govern

Charles Kennedy, the current Liberal Democrat leader, is unlikely to say anything similar. But such sentiments were expressed in private by a ...

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