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

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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  • Tristan Ward
    "A true national liberal party I do not see how a "true national liberal party" can be solely based on social liberalism - such a party can be only half a li...
  • Stephen Robinson
    We may wish to have a clear and distinctive policy on the subject. But we shouldn't proactively be talking about it. For the same reason as we were wrong to get...
  • Tom Arms
    point taken...
  • nigel hunter
    Trump now backsliding on his Patriot licencing deal with Ukraine after a phone call to Putin. He bends to Putin's will on regular occasions. His choosing winne...
  • Jason Connor
    I actually agree with Jana and also very much with Neil. Margaret Thatcher gets blamed for so many things. Other parties, particularly Labour when in power,...