Nick Clegg is finally doing the clever thing and openly talking about backing the Tories in coalition. I’m in a BBC studio waiting to do News24 paper review, and just have the FT’s front page. But it quotes him saying that he:
Now, I don’t believe him for a minute but it gives him more leverage with Brown to flirt with Cameron.“…could back a minority Tory government if David Cameron proposes genuine ‘liberal’ reforms.”

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