What is the world coming to when French Minister, Rachida Dati, is back at work just five days after giving birth (and looking amazingly fantastic after it too) and Nick Clegg suggests new fathers should be given a whole year’s paternity leave? The timing of his comments couldn’t be more embarrassing coming as they do in the week that thousands are being laid off and as his Labour and ...

Nick Clegg should stick very closely to a very boring script because everytime he utters in public he makes a prize mistake - either about women, the pension or his shopping habits. So when he came out with this line: "I am proud to lead the best front-bench team in British politics, a team which has consistently been ahead of the curve on the big debates that matter to the British people." ...he ...

Two of the Lib Dems more respected House of Commons performers have done well out of Nick Clegg's reshuffle today. David Heath returns to become our shadow leader of the House, the position he occupied between 2005 and 2007. It is a great shame that Nick Clegg's first act as leader was to oblige him to resign by... But don't start me on that. David Howarth is promoted to shadow just...

The BBC report of today's little-noticed Liberal Democrat reshuffle reads like a Private Eye spoof. The only slightly interesting fact is that Nick Clegg has weakened the power base of his former leadership rival, Chris Huhne, stripping him of the justice part of his home affairs brief. The sage Vince Cable, of course, remains in post as Treasury spokesman in what the ...

Is this the least interesting political headline in Britain? He says that he's got the best team. Which must be why he said this about them.

Nick Clegg has unveiled a shake-up of his party's frontbench team in preparation for the next election.

I am so excited about fronting the new Technology Board for the Party. Clever move by Nick Clegg I think as I think / hope this will be a good match between me and the need for a non-geek, non-nerdy human being to lead the way (vital and lovable though geeks and nerds are!). I have always used the internet to campaign - - and to communicate with all the different people that I have wanted to reach...

Comedy Quote of the Week. "I am proud to lead the best front-bench team in British politics, a team which has consistently been ahead of the curve on the big debates that matter to the British people. This team leaves the Liberal Democrats well placed to take the fight to both Labour and the Conservatives in the run-up to the General Election." Nick Clegg

Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, today unveiled a reshuffle of his frontbench team which makes good his unguarded threat to remove the leftwinger Steve Webb from the key climate change post. In a reshuffle designed to deliver the party's team for the next general election, Webb goes from shadowing climate change and energy to the lower-grade role of work and pensions. Clegg was embarr...

Just as I am in the middle of writing a blogpost about a Tory reshuffle, Nick Clegg announces that he's reshuffled his own front bench team. Full details are HERE. It's not exactly knicker gripping stuff. Susamn Kramer has left the front bench to campaign to keep her seat to lead the party's campaign against expansion at Heathrow. Simon Hughes is given the key job of Energu &amp...