If this morning’s papers are anything to go by, Nick Clegg is in freefall. The man who
was the Lib Dems’ biggest electoral asset is now a magnet for all sorts of political digruntlement. Exhibit A: the Ipsos MORI poll (£) in
today’s News of the World, where 61 percent of respondents say that they don’t trust Clegg, compared to 24 percent in April. He has gone from being “the most trusted politician since
Churchill,” to one of the least since … well, ever. It is no small irony that the leader who sailed most capably on the winds of “change” and “new politics” in the TV
debates has, whether rightly or wrongly, delivered this Parliament’s most stunning example of a broken pledge – and is suffering the fallout from it.
There’s more bad news for Clegg in the same News of the World poll.
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