Sir Ed Davey

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478 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2 Jun

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Walking The Dog with Emily Dean · Sir Ed Davey (Part One) · 2 Jun 2026 podcast

Which is horribly young.

He had three boys and had built up two offices in Kirtley, Nashville and Sutton, Nashville.

And mum used to say that he had this gift because he could speak

sort of more, not posh exactly, but speak sort of Middle England, if you like, to the business people.

But his real accent was quite, quite, you know, working class and he could speak to the miners, so he could...

He was adaptable,

Well, do you know what?

I had always thought

from when mum was alive that he was a Conservative because one of her memories was telling us about him was he'd go down to the Conservative club to play snooker.

But many years later after I'd become an MP I was sitting with my gran in a sheltered home looking through a photo album and there was this newspaper cutting from the late 50s

And it was of my dad.

And he was the guest speaker at the Mansfield District Liberal Association, with his main thing was, only the Liberals understand the NHS.

And I can't tell you the impact that had on me, because I thought he was a Tory, and it turns out he was a Liberal, and I've had that confirmed by one of

But I can't tell you what it meant to me.

Well,

Oh, yeah, definitely.

Definitely.

And I thought, why had no one ever told me?

And Mum had said that he had political aspirations, and that he was into politics, and obviously he was, because he was speaking in this garden party or whatever.

But we hadn't really progressed around that.

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