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Politics

Nick Clegg's secret reasons to be cheerful

14 September 2013

9:00 AM

14 September 2013

9:00 AM

His party may be struggling to reach double digits in the polls, but Nick Clegg is entitled to feel smug as he heads to Glasgow for this year’s Lib Dem conference. This gathering, the penultimate one before the general election, has long been circled in Westminster diaries as the moment when a challenge to his leadership would emerge.

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