‘We didn’t show we cared enough. We won’t make that mistake twice’: Ed Davey on love, loss and the Lib Dems

After the Lib Dems’ triumph in the local elections, their leader talks about his ‘mission’ to get rid of the Tories, the tragedies that blighted his childhood, and how caring for his disabled son has shaped his politicsI meet Ed Davey at his house in his Kingston and Surbiton constituency, a sprawling Edwardian semi. In the hands of a banker or, for that matter, a regular politician, it would be full of black and white tiles and plantation blinds, but in the hands of the Daveys