Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey batting during a game of beach cricket with LibDem MPs beside the famous beach huts at West Undercliff Promenade, in Bournemouth. Ben Birchall/PA Wire

Two important speeches took place yesterday, attracting, I suspect, very different sized audiences.

At the United Nations in New York, US President Donald Trump disregarded the 15 minute slot he’d been allocated to embark on a rambling, contentious, provocative and interesting speech to the assembled nations.

Meanwhile, in Bournemouth, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, attempted an ambitious round of political gymnastics to try and lure former Tory and Labour voters to join his crusade against what he sees as the UK’s very own Donald Trump, Nigel Farage.

Let’s take the US President

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