Donald Macintyre's sketch: Ex-leader Nick Clegg looks more like leader the Lib Dems need

Given Lord Ashcroft’s version of David Cameron’s version of why Lord Ashcroft didn’t get his “not insignificant” government job, Nick Clegg’s conference speech could have had a sensational climax: As in “yes, Liberal Democrats: I did block the Ashcroft job, just like I blocked all the other crackpot mean-spirited things the government is doing now we’re no longer in coalition.”