27 April, 2010
1. If nobody wins the election outright, I might hold the balance of power.
2. If Labour and Gordon Brown come third, they will have “lost the election spectacularly”.
3. It would not be legitimate for anyone who had lost spectacularly to run the country, therefore I could not work with Gordon Brown.
4. However I could work with Labour, even if they had lost spectacularly – as long as I can choose the leader.
No smoke-filled-room power-broking for Nick Clegg, then.
Only fresh, new, principled politics.