LDVideo | Election archive special… 1997

Welcome to the fourth instalment of our scavenge through the video archives for footage from bygone elections. We’ve trawled the 1960-70s, 1980s, and 1992 — which can only mean that today’s the turn of the 1997 landslide general election…

That Lib Dem Punch & Judy show

(Available on YouTube here.)

Paddy Ashdown: the Movie

(Available on YouTube here.)

John Cleese’s party election broadcast (no, not the PR one, or the local election one… the later one)

(Available on YouTube here.)

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