Daniel Radcliffe confesses to being Liberal Democrat
July 24th, 2009 - 6:14 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 24 (ANI): ‘Harry Potter’ star Daniel Radcliffe has revealed that he is a Liberal Democrat.
The actor, who turned 20 on July 23, revealed his true feelings towards politics and politicians in an interview for Attitude, a magazine whose latest cover features him.
The actor said that he supported Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg because the other parties offered nothing to young people.
“I rather like Nick Clegg. At the next election I will almost certainly vote Lib Dem,” the Sun quoted him as saying.
“If all the people who liked them voted for them you could change politics overnight and we could have a proper three party system,” he said.
Radcliffe also spoke about his deep dislike for Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
“Paul Merton said, and I agree with him, ‘it’s a tragedy that this man has waited all his life to do this job - and now he finds out he can’t do it’,” he said on Brown.
“I don’t like the New Labour thing. I never experienced the optimism of New Labour, I was too young but I hear everyone was up and it was fantastic. I’ve only seen the bad years of it,” he stated. (ANI)
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