A perfect demonstration of the fragile nature of the Conservative-Liberal coalition has come this afternoon, as William Hague distanced himself from Nick Clegg’s comments about the “illegal invasion of Iraq” at Prime Minister’s Questions.
As I blogged earlier, it was notable that Clegg was at the time flanked by William Hague and George Osborne, two true-believing Iraq hawks, if not neoconservatives.
Now, Hague has said he has a “different history” of the matter. Worse still, No 10 has stated that Clegg was not speaking on behalf of the government. Wasn’t he? This one will run and run.