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Nick Clegg is doing better – but will it be enough?
June 18, 2011 5:25 PM
• [Jun 17] Michael White writes: HOW mean can you get? Nick Clegg turned out as the guest of the Commons press gallery lunch yesterday and delivered a polished performance - more relaxed and less defensive or self-righteous than he has often been this past year of high office.
What's his reward? A few grudgingly amused paragraphs in the diary columns . . and some snippy stories, mercifully short, about his plans for his kids' education and some tut-tut versions of his quip about Chris Huhne: "I don't know any politician better at getting his points across." . .
Hazell ended his formal presentation (I left early) on an optimistic note for the junior partner. Even if the Lib Dems are reduced to 20 or 30 seats in 2015, they may well still hold the balance of power, he argues . . I suspect there will be a lot more blood on the carpet by then in ways [none of us] can yet guess. I'd also have predicted that Clegg would be retiring to an easier life in Spain, but that was before I saw him with his tail up yesterday.
• Nick Clegg is doing better - but will it be enough? [Guardian Politics Blog Jun 17]
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