As Conor McGinn acerbically noted on Twitter:
3.40pm Nick Clegg: “The past is gone and it isn’t coming back.”
3.50pm Nick Clegg: “Paddy Ashdown will Chair 2015 election campaign team.”
Update: Lewis James Brown from the Centre for Policy Studies has turned this into the following, which we found very amusing:
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