In a change to the usual schedule, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will be taking questions from listeners around the country at 9am this morning, Wednesday (not tomorrow, Thursday):
MT @lbc973: #CallClegg is on soon. Send in your questions and you could be asking the Deputy Prime Minister at 9am lbc.co.uk/call-clegg-nic…
— Liberal Democrats (@LibDems) February 20, 2013
With any luck, he’ll get the chance to differentiate himself from David Cameron’s ill-judged attack on Hilary Mantel for her article on the Duchess of Cambridge.
And a bit of good cheer for Lib Dems this morning. While all the by-election focus has been on Eastleigh, Lib Dem Graham Pooley won a by-election yesterday on Chelmsford council, with a 10% swing from the Conservatives. He’s pictured below with fellow campaigners, Daisy Benson and Theresa Higgins.
LDs make gain in Chelmsford local by election (Broomfield/Walthams).LD 543 Con 423 UKIP 280 Lab 129 GRN 47. UKIP vote might worry blues
— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) February 20, 2013
* Stephen was Editor (and Co-Editor) of Liberal Democrat Voice from 2007 to 2015, and writes at The Collected Stephen Tall.
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