URSY.NEWS / The Guardian / 18 Oct 2026
‘Damp squib’: Ed Davey can breathe easy as Lib Dem leadership challenge fails to materialise
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Lengthy meeting heard grumbles about ‘blue wall’ policies and ‘Ming vase’ tactics but no real rancourAs 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, le…
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