Welcome to the Restisted Policy's leading with me, Alistair Campbell.

And me, Rory Stewart.

And I guess today is, I'm going to call you Ed Davy, not Sir Ed Davy, I don't like all

these on his side.

You can call me Ed if you want.

I'll call you Ed Great, actually.

So Ed Davy, who I'm sure all of you know, is the leader of the Liberal Democrats.

And I suspect this interview may be a tale of two coalitions, the one that Ed Davy

was part of, under David Cameron Nick Clegan, the one that he might be part of, who knows

after the next general election, when Kirsta Malmite or might not be Prime Minister.

Elected in 1997, and elected by 56 votes, three recounts, so pretty tense stuff.

Stay there till 2015, when the electors of servitude decided they had enough of him

in the coalition government, which he served in the cabinet, kicked him out, but he hung

around and came back two years later, and then three years after that was leader of the

Liberal Democrats.

Does that sort of sum it all up, reasonably well?

It's a brief, I guess so.

You know, we've got to be brief, but we're going to cover your whole life and times.

And I think Rory tends to be the Freudian, most as he always likes to start with child.

Oh, good.

So Rory, dig into the childhood.

Alice is more on the kind of Jungian side and this kind of relationship.

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