Clegg or Huhne?

Daniel Hannan has his own take on Clegg versus Huhne:

If I were a Lib Dem, it would have to be Nick Clegg, who possesses every requisite refinement. He’s articulate, personable, simpatico and modest. He speaks five languages fluently. He’s a proper parliamentarian, equally at ease in committees and on the floor of the house. He’s temperate in his opinions, and courteous to those - like me - who find those opinions risible.

As a Tory, it’s equally straightforward. There is no one we’d rather have than the almost unbelievably pompous, ambitious and litigious Chris Huhne.

Easy then, no? Except that, happily for the other parties, LibDems are a notoriously chippy bunch, and Clegg’s looks and brains will count against him. So my money is on Huhne, the man who, in 1991, delivered himself of the following observation: “Britain’s belated membership of the ERM has proved to be a greater success than almost anyone expected. We have discovered, 11 years after most of our European partners, that fixed exchange rates make sense”. There you have the authentic voice of the LibDem loser through the ages: self-important, unapologetic and wrong.