It took a while for Nick Clegg to confirm that he would stay with his party to 2015, but today his colleague Ed Davey did him a favour (or perhaps not) and confirmed on his behalf that Clegg would stay not just through the next election, but would lead his party into the 2020 election.
He told Andrew Neil on the Sunday Politics:
‘I’m really very supportive of what Nick has been doing, I think he’s the best leader we’ve ever had and I think he’s going to lead the party not just into the next election but into the one after that.’
Ed Davey is obviously trying to fend off accusations that he’s abandoning the club sandwiches and aiming for the leadership himself, but he managed to make himself sound more enthusiastic about Clegg as leader than Clegg himself.
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