Nick Clegg does seem to be keeping busy. After his excellent work during the Gurkha vote, which incorporated the first outing of the Clegg-Cameron coalition, today’s Telegraph contains this revelation:
“Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, has privately authorised secret approaches to unhappy Blairites, trying to persuade them to join the Lib Dems instead of forming their own breakaway party.
One Lib Dem said: ‘There is nothing imminent or even concrete, but there have been conversations with people on what you might call the moderate side of the Labour Party.
They look at the likely outcome of the election and worry about the direction the party could take.’
Another Lib Dem source said at least six Labour MPs had indicated that they could be prepared to leave the party. Earlier this week Daniel Clarke, the Labour candidate in Eastleigh, Hants, defected to the Lib Dems saying Labour was ‘no longer committed to realising the dreams of people like me’.”
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