Nick Clegg’s head is spinning, apparently, now that quite so many media outlets are involved in pursuing the allegations about Lord Rennard. That’s what he told ‘self-appointed detective’ Cathy Newman when she managed to get through to his LBC phone-in this morning. Perhaps it was this dizzy sensation of his party being embroiled in a scandal that led the Lib Dem leader to change his tune rather on the issue of why Rennard left. He said:
‘Of course these things were in the background but his health was the immediate reason why he stepped down.’
Later, he added:
‘Of course the issues of his inappropriate behaviour were in the background, of course they were.’
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