Ed Davey on caring for his disabled son

It's hard to get cut through in political campaigns. For Ed Davy in this election, the personal has become the political, his own family story now the backbone of the Liberal Democrats message. We started talking about it quite gently into my first year or so of leadership. We got this reaction from people saying thank you for talking about it. Come on my sweetheart, come on, come on. This Lib Dem film of Adavi at home caring for his disabled son, viewed millions of times. A carer since he was a child, first nursing his dying mother and now caring for his teenage boy, was a young carer. We had our first child, John, and we realised after about a year that he was going to be severely disabled. His wife Emily, who recently revealed she has multiple sclerosis, also cares for John. Thing about being a carer is it's absolutely exhausting. It's physically exhausting, it's emotionally exhausting for John. He's now 16. What do you hope for his future? The first thing is to enable him to be as independent as possible can be and be the wonderful boy and man that he can be. I think any parent would say this. No one's going to care for him like we do. I mean, there'll be some wonderful carers out there, I'm sure who who look after their their patients very much. But. No one's going to hold him like we hold him. That's fine, Lisa, just to focus on the immediate, isn't it? And the practical, and you can have all sorts of illegal ideas and also solicit trusts and all of that, but actually it's what you've got to have as a caring community, a caring society. And that's our best. That's the best hope for the future. A small party, it's hard for the Lib Dems to grab attention. But after years in something of a political wilderness, Ed Davey has at least won an audience. The big question now is whether it will help the Lib Dems clean up in the Blue World battlegrounds come July the 4th. Bath, Rigby. Sky News.