The latest issue of the Spectator is out today, and here are my top five features:
Nick Clegg takes to the stage. With a hung Parliament looking increasingly likely, I thought we should pay a bit of attention to the Lib Dem leader in this week’s issue. Interviewed by me, he does his best to reach out to Tory voters – pointing to his party’s tax-cutting agenda and its spending cut-heavy plan to lower the deficit. He even cites Margaret Thatcher as an inspiration – we put up an excerpt on Coffee House yesterday. Meanwhile, Bruce Anderson warns Tories to avoid Clegg at all costs: the Lib Dem leader’s allegiance is, Bruce writes, to a federal Europe.
Who’ll hold the balance of power in a hung parliament? James Forsyth looks at the various factions of parliament which will make their voices heard – and perhaps create trouble for their leaders – in the event of a hung parliament.
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