The session could not come quickly enough for Mr Clegg who was recently mocked by Labour
leadership hopeful David Miliband for being a «dumb waiter».
But Conservative MP and one - time
leadership hopeful David Davis said the new measure was a «stepping stone back» to those proposals.
Not exact matches
The Liberal Democrats may not have succeeded in «decapitating» key members of the Tory
leadership at the last election (Charles Kennedy had hoped to oust
David Davis, Michael Howard and Theresa May) but the Conservatives, says The Telegraph's Andrew Pierce, are
hopeful that tactical voting and some extra resources could defeat six of Labour's leading faces:
An orchestrated parade of former party luminaries grown fat on privatised directorships has denounced Ed Miliband's modest departures from the New Labour script, echoed by his brother,
David, and a clutch of
hopeful Blairite candidates for the
leadership.
David Miliband, another
leadership hopeful, will also be speaking to the BBC to outline his proposed party reforms.»