It’s real, this Clegg-mania. Speak to ordinary people and they have picked up on it. Perhaps, like so much in British politics, it has been encouraged by a consensus among media people after a new story. But even if that’s the case, it’s penetrated through, as shown by today’s Mail on Sunday poll putting the Liberal Democrats ahead for the first time in decades, on 32 points to the Tories’ 31 and Labour’s 28.
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