‘Some newspapers have interpreted Nick Clegg’s refusal to back a Brown government if Labour came third as a suggestion that he should be prime minister in such a Lib Dem-Labour deal’
(PoliticsHome site this morning)
‘I don’t know the answer for certain, because formerly talkative LibDems are suffering a severe case of lockjaw at the minute. But educated speculation is just as much fun – and would reflect what one Whitehall and two Westminster contacts have put to The Slog in the last 24 hours: Nick Clegg thinks that what’s in it for him is the key to Number Ten Downing Street.’
THE FUTURE’S IN THE SLOG
The Slog 