Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister, has admitted that he changed his mind about the timing of spending cuts prior to the general election, despite publicly telling the electorate weeks before the poll that early deep cuts would be “economic masochism”. Hélène Mulholland and Patrick Wintour, The Guardian.

I can’t help feeling the end is nigh for the untrustworthy piece of shit that is Nick Clegg come election time Lid-Dem voters aren’t going to forget his betrayal.