Ed Davey has been throwing himself in the water to win votes

While the other parties appear to have been taking the election campaign seriously, Ed Davey has been having enormous fun. Political editor David Maddox explains that there is a clever political calculation behind the Lib Dem leader’s frivolity

The Lib Dem leader was pictured mid-air with bare feet and his trousers rolled up as he jumped on a pillow trampoline at Bocketts Farm in Dorking, Surrey, today.