According to a recent YouGov poll, Nick Clegg has an overall rating of minus 54, making him more popular than the hapless Ed Miliband by just one point. While that wouldn’t appear to be much to celebrate, the Deputy Prime Minister seems to actually be in denial about his own standing amongst the British public.
In the first ever joint interview he has given with his wife Miriam, Clegg is asked whether his wife’s ‘huge fanbase’ ever causes an issue given that his own reputation has ‘taken a kicking over the past four years’.
‘I also have a great fanbase,’ Clegg replies, looking rather hurt.
In the interview, which appears in this month’s edition of Red Magazine, the Deputy Prime Minister goes onto insist that he couldn’t even contemplate using his wife to boost his own popularity.
‘We’re husband and wife. I don’t think of Miriam as some sort of PR seesaw. It would literally never occur to me,’ he tells the Sherlock actress Louise Brealey.
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