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Stephen Tall

NEW POLL: who is the best living Lib Dem orator?

By Stephen Tall | Mon 6th April 2009 - 11:15 pm

Last night on BBC2, Alan Yentob (the BBC’s cultural ‘Whicker Man’) posed the question: has Barack Obama brought back the art of oratory to 21st-century politics for good? After all, if there were one factor (apart from his opposition to the Iraq war) which decisively swung the US election in President Obama’s favour it was his soaring, inspirational rhetoric – which was as successful in defusing criticism as it was in enthusing supporters.

For some time now, political oratory has been out of fashion in the UK. The packed public meetings of the early twentieth-century – which did so …

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