At the first leader's debate on 15 April, leader of the Conservatives Mr Cameron defended spending of up to £100 billion for a like-for-like replacement of Trident due to his claim that Britain has to preserve an independent nuclear deterrent against future threats from countries such as Iran and China.
On Sunday 18 April, Liberal Democrats in Hammersmith took their campaign to the streets in an open-top election battle bus attended by reporters from the local Fulham Chronicle to the South China Morning Post.
Chinese Liberal Democrat Philip Ling made this statement shortly after the results were announced in Bromsgrove:
Allan Siao Ming Witherick who stood for Broxbourne constituency on behalf of the Liberal Democrats said:
SingTao on 18 April 2008 published an article on the Chinese Lib Dems [Chinese language] which you can read at http://tinyurl.com/6cs7be
The Chinese Liberal Democrats were saddened to hear that with the passing of the General Election that the Chinese Shadow Parliament part of the EU Chinese Journal will cease.