If the first, instant cliché was that "Dave needed a game-changer and didn't get it", the second ought to have been "Is Clegg what the hype said Cameron was?"
When all the endless puff pieces wrote up David Cameron's coming victory, the man that anticipatory narrative required was the man Nick Clegg was being last night. As the press slimed him, his temper didn't slip, as the biggest opportunity of his life came his way he didn't freeze in the headlights and, when it came to saying nothing competently and plausibly, he's still the man to beat.
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