Nick Clegg’s Woes
GQ taught us rather a lot last week. Nick Clegg is incapable of answering a potentially damaging question with grace. The later excuse that he is “straight-talking” is made even more feeble because the exchange was nothing but straight-talking. It wasn’t just car-crash: it was swerving for miles before it came to an abrupt halt.
Not being a GQ reader, I missed the full interview. Danny Finkelstein featues a truly shocking exchange on Iraq.
For what it’s worth, we also learned last week that had late ballots been counted Chris Huhne would have won the leadership. Countless LibDems will be wishing the result had been different. Of course, some of us were more impressed with Huhne from the beginning, but we don’t like to boast.