Ed Davey takes to massive inflatable pillow on Lib Dem marketing campaign path
Another day on the eccentric Lib Dem campaign trail saw Sir Ed Davey bouncing around on a giant inflatable pillow.
The Lib Dem leader was pictured mid-air with bare feet and his trousers rolled up as he jumped on a pillow trampoline at Bocketts Farm in Dorking, Surrey, today.
It is his latest stunt in a three-week run of attention-grabbing antics by the politician on the General Election campaign that has seen the 58-year-old falling off a paddleboard in Windermere and undergo a makeover on ITV‘s This Morning.
At the end of May, Sir Ed tried to put pressure on the Tories over the UK’s sewage crisis by paddle-boarding and falling into England’s largest lake and the scene of a highly controversial effluent spillage in February.
Earlier this month it was claimed million of litres of raw sewage were ‘illegally pumped’ into the Lake District beauty spot by United Utilities after a fault was not corrected for hours.
Another day on the eccentric Lib Dem campaign trail saw Sir Ed Davey bouncing around on a giant inflatable pillow
The Lib Dem leader was pictured mid-air with bare feet and his trousers rolled up as he jumped on a pillow trampoline at Bocketts Farm in Dorking, Surrey, today
On Friday, the party leader was compared to ‘The Man From Del Monte’ as he pranced about on a catwalk in front of hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard on ITV’s This Morning.
The politician put on a linen blazer, navy chinos and leather trainers after his team asked stylist Laura Puddy for the ‘perfect summer outfit for the campaign trial’.
Other campaign trail stops have seen him clamber around a water obstacle course and an assault course, belting out We Will Rock You on drums made from an exercise ball and riding the new rollercoaster at Thorpe Park.
MAY 28 — Sir Ed Davey falls from a paddleboard on Lake Windermere during a campaign visit
Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley watch Sir Ed Davey on the catwalk on ITV’s This Morning today
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey poses on the catwalk while on This Morning on Friday
Sir Ed was compared to ‘The Man From Del Monte’ in the famous television adverts
MAY 5 — Sir Ed joins care home residents in a DrumFit class in Romsey, Hampshire
JUNE 13 — Sir Ed took on an assault course during a visit to Arena Pursuits in Wadhurst, Kent, while on the General Election campaign trail
JUNE 12 — Sir Ed Davey falls from an Aqua Jungle floating assault course on a visit to Spot-On-Wake in Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire, on the General Election campaign trail
JUNE 12 — Sir Ed Davey jumps into the water on his visit to Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire
JUNE 10 — Sir Ed rides on the Colossus rollercoaster at the Thorpe Park theme park in Surrey
MAY 30 — Sir Ed Davey slides down an ‘Ultimate Slip N Slide’ in Frome, Somerset
MAY 29 — Sir Ed Davey clowns around on a bike during a visit to Knighton in Wales last month
It is all in an effort to to chip away at the ‘blue wall’, a collection of typically safe Conservative seats in southern England.
Sir Ed has pledged to scrap elected police and crime commissioners (PCC) to unlock money which he says could bolster frontline policing.
The Lib Dems will hope their blue wall gains will keep them in the running for the opposition, as the Tories continue to languish in the polls, and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage declared his party the ‘challengers to Labour’ in ‘red wall’ seats in northern England and the Midlands.
