Yer man Clegg appears never to have run into the old saw: 'when you are in a hole, stop digging'!

One does get the impression that he's thinking: 'how dare a mere woman stand up to a predatory male?'

Yer privilege is showing, Nicholas!

The party tried to brush the Rennard affair under the carpet. In the end Clegg seems to have acted decisively. He got his deputy to give Rennard a good talking to. Shortly afterwards Rennard resigned.

Thus far it's embarrassing for the party but Clegg comes out of it reasonably well. What comes next has been a master-class in political ineptitude. The admission that he knew about Rennard has had to be dragged out of Clegg and he's kept changing his story. I don't understand it. The story could have been spun to his advantage- "Yes I knew about it and I moved to sack the bastard." Instead he's allowed himself to appear evasive, petulant and generally useless. It's very odd.

He said the "self-appointed detectives" should back down and let him investigate himself. The political ineptitude has been awe-inspiring.

Yes, she gave him the opportunity to unravel a little bit more.