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

I was the only adult dressed up in this whole place.

Of course you were, Ed, because no one else would do that.

So she was Hermione, I was Harry, and we had an absolute ball for four hours.

as Harry Potter.

The good thing is only anyone recognised me.

It's great.

I was incognito.

It's almost as if they

Well, to be honest, before I became the leader, I was quietly in the background doing a few campaigns.

So a lot of work on childhood bereavement, having lost both my parents as a child.

But it was only when I became leader that I started being asked questions about who I was and

background.

And so I sat down with Emily and I said, look, you know,

This is going to impinge on us more than I had expected.

How are we going to deal with it?

And so we agreed sort of the red lines, but we would and wouldn't talk about it.

And so I started the odd interview.

And then what was really significant in the journey was the response of the public.

So people started writing in saying, thank you for talking about that.

particularly about my son John and his disabilities, but also about losing my parents.

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