Vince Cable looks set to become the first Strictly contestant to lead a political party
The news tonight that ex-coalition cabinet minister, Ed Davey, is not planning to stand for the LD leadership means that that former Business Secretary Secretary looks set to take over from Tim Farron as LD leader.
Davey became the third prominent LD to announce he wasn’t going forward after Jo Swinson and Norman Lamb.
The formal nomination process ends on July 20th which means that Vince will have to wait till then before taking the crown.
As someone pointed out on my Twitter timeline Cable looks all set to be the first Strictly contestant to become a party leader. He was on the show in 2010.
The big question mark about him is, of course, his age. It is 74 which means that if the Parliament runs its full course and he remained in office he would be 79 when fighting a general election.