Stephen Tall

Vince to take over from Nick

By | Tue 10th February 2009 - 7:59 pm

Before you get too shocked/excited (delete according to taste) by the news, Jon Craig at Sky News’s Boulton & Co blog gives the background:

Vince revealed at a Parliamentary Press Gallery lunch that he is to stand in for Nick Clegg for “two or three weeks” when the Lib Dem leader takes paternity leave. … Cable expects to stand in for Clegg at at least two Prime Ministers Questions next month in the run-up to Parliament’s Easter recess. … I don’t suppose Gordon Brown will be relaxed about the prospect of facing a few more painful jolts from the electric Cable once again.

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3 Comments

  • asquith 10th Feb '09 - 8:13pm

    Surely he has got to focus on his own business & that? Not as if the economics department is having a few dead months.

  • asquith 11th Feb '09 - 10:20am

    I agree that Brown should be stamped upon & excluded from polite society.

    Have got no complaints if this is successful, I’m just being a bitch & that 🙂

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