Davey thanks candidates who lost in election
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has thanked candidates who did not win in the election for their work during the campaign. In his keynote speech, he told the party's autumn conference that he wanted to "shine a spotlight" on a group "whose contribution to our success isn't recognised as much as it should be".
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00:00And let me shine a spotlight on a second group of people
00:04whose contribution to our success isn't recognised as much as it should be.
00:08I'm talking about all those candidates and all those local parties
00:13who set aside their own ambitions to go and help colleagues in target seats.
00:18The candidates who didn't win.
00:21As scripture tells us in the book of Macob.
00:27Chapter 2, verse 7.
00:30Greater love hath no candidate than this,
00:33that they and their team go canvassing in a nearby target seat.