WATCH: Clegg claims bureaucracy-free trade is impossible ‘other than being a member of the single market’

He also refers to David Davis’s post-referendum ConservativeHome article.

Decapitation Central: five seats that could change the course of British political history

A close election usually means that safe seats stay that way, thus allowing big beasts to rest easy. But these are interesting times.

Iain Dale: How I helped to rig an election phone-in

Plus: CCHQ goes all Goebbels. I announce my peerage – replacing Lord Ashcroft. My political bias. Good luck to agents. And: am I an egotistical knob?

WATCH: Clegg backs Zac Goldsmith’s demands on tougher right of recall

Clegg says he is sorry it is only a “modest” version

Heresy of the week: Our leaders have no idea what they’re doing – but that’s the way they like it

What is it that causes our politicians to make so many unforced errors?

WATCH: Nick Clegg’s LBC phone in

His response on Labour’s election broadcast portraying him chased by a cat was: “They spent money on this?”

Grayling is right to show what a Conservative Government would mean

Conservative Ministers should not wait for the manifesto to say what they would do without the yellow albatross

Why the House of Lords is like a leaky gutter

The unreformed House of Lords is an insult to democracy that could get a lot worse

The ruling tribes of British politics – Day 3: The Lib Dem rank-and-file and the Orange Bookers

The traditional function of the third party in British politics has been to sweep up the protest vote, thus protecting the parties of power

Heresy of the week: Nigel Farage, peacenik

Westminster village types seemed genuinely surprised that an anti-war message can come from a rightwing politician

Will the Lib Dems have ANY women MPs after next year’s election?

Of the 20 “safest” Lib Dem seats only Hazel Grove is due to have a Lib Dem woman candidate at the next election.

WATCH: Clegg’s message to Rennard is “No apology, no whip”

“He should apologise just as a matter of basic decency.”

If you care about social mobility then you should care about marriage

Despite the accumulating evidence that family stability is of enormous importance in supporting all kinds of beneficial social outcomes, most of our politicians refuse to engage with the issue.

Lib Dems lack credibility on tax cuts

The difficulty for the Lib Dems is that they have no credibility as a tax cutting party as they have no credibility as a spending cutting party.

Henry Hill: Welsh schools are worse than any in England, report finds

Also: SNP accuse Labour of stealing credit for public spending spree. And Belfast commemorates the nine victims of the 1993 Shankill Road bombing…whilst republicans unveil a plaque to the bomber.