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🗓️ #OnThisDay in 2016, Labour MP Dennis Skinner was thrown out of the Commons by Speaker John Bercow for referring to then Prime Minister David Cameron as 'Dodgy Dave'.
🗓 #OnThisDay in 2019, Jo Swinson made her first and last speech to Lib Dem conference as the party’s leader.
“There is no limit to my ambition for our party and our country and today I am standing here as your candidate for Prime Minister.”
🗓 #OnThisDay in 2016, the Lib Dems won the Richmond Park by-election as Sarah Olney defeated Zac Goldsmith by overturning a majority of more than 23,000.
LDEM: 49.6% (+30.3)
GOLDSMITH: 45.1% (-13.1)
LAB: 3.7% (-8.7)
(Changes with 2015 General Election)
🗓️ #OnThisDay in 2016, Labour MP Dennis Skinner was thrown out of the Commons by Speaker John Bercow for referring to then Prime Minister David Cameron as 'Dodgy Dave'.
🗓 #OnThisDay in 2015, three party leaders resigned within two hours of each other following disappointing results in the 2015 General Election:
🔴 Labour leader Ed Miliband
🔶 Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg
🟣 UKIP leader Nigel Farage
#GE2015
🗓 18 April 2010
📊 A YouGov poll showed the Lib Dems ahead of both the Conservatives and Labour following Nick Clegg’s performance in the first TV debate.
LDEM: 33%
CON: 32%
LAB: 26%
#GE2010
🗓 28 April 2010
🔴 Prime Minister Gordon Brown is in Rochdale this morning meeting voters.
🔴 He is currently talking to Gillian Duffy - a lifelong Labour voter - with the pair discussing a range of issues including education and immigration.