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Caron Lindsay

The best tweets of the #INtogether Day of Action

By Caron Lindsay | Sat 14th May 2016 - 7:55 pm

Hundreds of enthusiastic Liberal Democrats hit the streets today for the first INtogether National Day of Action for the EU referendum campaign. From Daventry to Yate to Dunfermline to Plymouth, we flew the European flag.

The weather was very kind to us. My husband warned me to take a jacket into Edinburgh with me because it was going to turn nasty but it never did.  We held a street stall in Morningside in Edinburgh. The BBC’s Scotland editor Sarah Smith was spotted walking past it, nipping into the shops behind. Did anyone else see anyone famous as they campaigned?

Anyway, here are some of the bright and busy Lib Dems in action from across the country. You can see all of them here. Let us know what you did, and particularly the sort of things people were saying to you, in the comments.

Lib Dem MEP Catherine Bearder was in Stratford:

They either cloned her or she did a whistle-stop tour round several of the stalls in London:

The Leader himself was in Kendal

And Simon Hughes joined the team in London

Paddy was on the Yeovil stall – and he even wore the t-shirt

Who needs a battlebus?

The INtogether fever spread to the East Midlands:

That’s it. I’m going to London next time:

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