PODCAST: Nick Clegg Q&A

By Alex Foster | Sun 19th September 2010 - 4:45 pm

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Below is a sound recording of the Nick Clegg Q&A that just happened.

We also live-tweeted it – and the tweets will not be displaced from our feed for a few hours yet.

And m’colleague Stephen Tall was live-blogging the session, and his words can be found here.

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mpg 19th Sep '10 - 7:34pm

I was at Nick’s Q&A today. While I found some of his answers to the trickier questions put to him wanting and sometimes not germane, I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that, after hearing him in a fringe meeting and at the Q&A, that I’m not a little reassured by us being in coalition. It’s been interesting taking the temperature of the party and it is obvious that many of us are not sure about all this, but Nick gave a spirited and convincing defence, and was general quite sensitive to those of us not as enthused by the coalition as he is. I feel a little more confident that we aren’t’ just being swept away by power, and our purpose in this coalition is more defensible than I thought.
So, while I am not as distrubed by all this, I feel very comfortable about “holding Nick’s feet to the fire” as one member suggested.
Red Rag 19th Sep '10 - 9:29pm

The problem Nick Clegg is going to have, and obviously the Lib Dems by association, many of the electorate, including 52% of those who said they voted for you in May, will not believe him or anything he says from now on. Whether you like that or not, or whether it is justified, is another matter, however, it is something that Clegg and his party will have to deal with.