Clegg “would make a very good Tory”, says Tory MP

The Clegger went to visit a Tory dining club this week, but this quote from a Tory MP, as reported by James Lansdale, probably isn’t the reaction he wanted:

“He wasn’t as instinctively hostile to us as most Lib Dems. He would make a very good Tory.”

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