Nick Clegg used his monthly press conference this afternoon to deliver a strongly worded attacked on Labour over its energy price freeze and lengthy, unsolicited defence of what the government is doing to tackle the cost of living. There were some mildly interesting points from the Deputy Prime Minister on energy bills, as he insisted repeatedly that he was a ‘pragmatist’ about how the money for low income and vulnerable households is raised and that talks over how some green and social taxes and levies could be removed from fuel bills were going to continue between now and the Autumn Statement.
He also hit back at sacked Lib Dem Minister Jeremy Browne’s description of the party as being like a shopping trolley that has veered to the left, describing a number of Lib Dem achievements and adding:
‘Anyone who wants to say to me that that is a record of a party lurching to the left really, really has quite a different understanding about shopping trollies or left or right than I think most people do in British politics.’
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