Lib Dem leadership contest: Jo Swinson apologies over mailing error
Following Ed Davey’s apology for a poorly worded article, we now have frontrunner Jo Swinson apologising for a mailing error. It resulted in some party members being posted literature even though they had opted out of such contacts:
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I have been asking for co-leaders as I haven’t felt that either contender can keep up the relentless drive that would take us to outstanding General Election success. I attended the hustings at Stratford-Upon-Avon on Saturday and heard nothing to change my mind.
Personally I don’t think either candidate will have the same electoral appeal as Vince Cable and it is a pity he will never have the chance to fight a General Election. This clip from Jo Swinson’s TV interview on Sky reveals how defensively she reacts to what is evidently a minor breach of data security. Ed Davey, too, needs to lighten up in interviews when he is asked to justify his time as a minister in the coalition government.
I don’t think she is reacting ‘defensively’, though I do find it disappointing that some of our members have felt the need to go to Sky News about this – was that really necessary?