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24 March 2011

Nick Clegg’s on-mike gaffe

Clegg to Cameron: “If we keep doing this we won’t have anything to bloody disagree on in the bloody

By Duncan Robinson

The Prime Minister and his deputy enjoyed a typically chummy Q&A session in Nottingham today, during which the topic of TV debates cropped up.

Wandering off camera at the end, Clegg can be heard saying to Cameron:

If we keep doing this we won’t have anything to bloody disagree on in the bloody TV debates.

Music to the ears of each party’s grass roots, I’m sure. Here’s the video:

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