Listening to John Humphrys’s interview with Nick Clegg on the Today programme was horribly fascinating. Humphrys played the Lib Dem leader as a cat plays with a mouse, starting with a series of questions about the Lib Dem leader’s impressive record of premarital dalliance.
The more Clegg attempted to avoid the question, the more Humphrys returned to it. When Clegg said the confession had been made in a split second, Humphrys observed that people expected split second judgment from their leaders. Clegg spluttered a bit.
Humphrys then mischievously suggested that Clegg compared poorly with his stopgap predecessor, Vince Cable. Clegg was not only irked, but clearly so.
It was a bad-tempered, chippy, brittle performance by Clegg. He came over badly and will have to do better.
Humphrys was wonderful.
The more Clegg attempted to avoid the question, the more Humphrys returned to it. When Clegg said the confession had been made in a split second, Humphrys observed that people expected split second judgment from their leaders. Clegg spluttered a bit.
Humphrys then mischievously suggested that Clegg compared poorly with his stopgap predecessor, Vince Cable. Clegg was not only irked, but clearly so.
It was a bad-tempered, chippy, brittle performance by Clegg. He came over badly and will have to do better.
Humphrys was wonderful.
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