Lib Dem leader Ed Davey cries as he shares struggles of caring for his disabled son

Ed Davey gets emotional as he opens up about caring for disabled sonSource: Sky News

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00:00I was a young carer. We had our first child John and we realised after about a year that

00:06he was going to be severely disabled.

00:09The thing about being a carer is it's absolutely exhausting. It's physically exhausting, it's

00:14emotionally exhausting.

00:16For John, he's now 16, what do you hope for his future?

00:20The first thing is to enable him to be as independent as he possibly can be and be the

00:26wonderful boy and man that he can be.

00:29I think any parent would say this, no-one's going to care for him like we do. I mean there'll

00:33be some wonderful carers out there I'm sure who look after their patients very much, but

00:45no-one's going to hold him like we hold him.

00:49That's why it's easier just to focus on the immediate, isn't it? And the practical.

00:55You can have all sorts of illegal ideas, I've trusted in all of that, but actually it's

01:03what you've got to have as a caring community, a caring society, and that's the best hope

01:08for the future.