This is your chance to ask the energy secretary anything. Join Ed Davey MP live online from 10.30-11.30am BST on Wednesday 22 October
First elected Liberal Democrat MP for Kingston and Surbiton in 1997, Ed Davey spent 13 years as a party spokesperson on issues as varied as housing, education and foreign affairs. After his party formed a coalition government with the Conservatives in 2010 he was promoted, first working as an under-secretary in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills before being appointed secretary of state for energy and climate change in 2012.
Addressing the Liberal Democrat party conference earlier this month, Davey took pride in his record in government. Were delivering dramatic change in energy because we are outsiders, on the side of people, not vested interests, he said. Above all, we are proving people can have greener energy and cheaper energy even as vested interests are desperate to persuade people you cant.
Voters beware. Voting blue will never get you green. And if the Tories win the next election, the dramatic rise in renewable electricity Liberal Democrats have achieved would be stopped dead in its tracks.