Nick Clegg: Rob Wilson is as good a wingman as Icarus was

That Danny Alexander struggles with appearing to have gone native in the Treasury has been well known in Westminster for a long time. He gets on well with George Osborne on a personal level, and I reported in December that he’d been rebuked for accidentally using the Tory term ‘global race’. Today Nick Clegg was asked about some rather amusing quotes by George Osborne’s PPS Rob Wilson (who described himself as the Chancellor’s ‘wingman’ in an event with party members last night) that the Deputy Prime Minister himself thinks that Alexander has gone native. The Huffington post has the full report here but here’s the key quote:

‘I think Nick Clegg complains quite often that Danny Alexander has gone native in the Treasury. I think there is some truth in the fact he has gone native in the Treasury. The relationship is very good within the Treasury team.’