A few weeks ago, in common with other media commentators, I might have inadvertantly given the impression that Mr Nick Clegg's performance on the first-ever televised debate between the three main party leaders revealed him as a towering political collosus whose easy chat-show style marked him out as one of the truly great statesmen of his generation. Phrases such as "I Agree With Nick, " "The New Obama" and "Cleggmania sweeps Britain," which dominated the headlines for several minutes, could possibly have been construed as a suggestion that Mr Clegg seemed like a nice young chap in a suit who was in no way tainted by the MPs' expenses scandal and whose polices deserved to escape proper scrutiny. I now accept that there was not a jot nor scintilla of truth in anything that I or other commentators might have thought at the time and that we all got it hopelessly wrong on this one.
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