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LDVideo Easter Saturday special: Lib Dem leaders at PMQs

By | Sat 3rd April 2010 - 10:50 am

Welcome to this latest LDVideo instalment, and today as a special holiday treat we’re highlighting three political video clips showing Lib Dem leaders on top form at Prime Minister’s Questions.

First up, is Ming Campbell. Now Ming didn’t always have the happiest time at PMQs, but there were times when he hit his stride perfectly, and this was one such occasion, on 24th January 2007, when shaming Tony Blair’s failure to debate in the Commons whether troops should be withdrawn from Iraq:


(Also available on YouTube here).

Secondly, how could we forget Vince Cable‘s starring turn as acting leader? Certainly Gordon ‘Mr Bean’ Brown will never forget it:


(Also available on YouTube here).

And finally, here’s Nick Clegg in one of his early appearances at PMQs taking Gordon Brown to task for failing to give Gurkhas the rights due to those prepared to give their lives for this country:


(Also available on YouTube here).

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