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7 January 2013

Clegg has nothing to lose and much to gain from his phone-in show

The Lib Dem leader should use his new LBC radio slot to give his critics both barrels.

By Richard Morris

It’s 10 O’Clock Thursday morning, and the interweb and chatterati are abuzz with Nick Clegg going off on one, in his first live phone-in programme on LBC.

“I’ve been listening to a broadcast that’s disgusting, that’s being run in a way that’s despicable, vile, repugnant,” the UK’s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg told host Nick Ferrari during a live radio show on Thursday morning. “I’ve heard theories that are distorted and far from the truth. I’ve seen a reconstruction of reality that’s the opposite of the truth.” And he finished up by calling the whole programme ‘a whorehouse’.

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