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Politics Unpacked

Does Nick Clegg need a slice of luck?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Tim Montgomerie is joined by Francis Elliott, Matthew Parris and Deborah Haynes. Francis Elliott David Cameron in Portugal, Ed Miliband in France and Nick Clegg in Spain - which of them will be most enjoying their break? Mr Cameron is famously good at "chillaxing" but with the polls not so far following the economic growth figures he - arguably - has more to worry about than Mr Miliband. It is Mr Clegg, however, who most needs a break.Matthew ParrisAs the situation deteriorates in LIbya, the voices keenest for the 2011 intervention (including perhaps The Times) will re-set their advice, arguing now that the problem is that we haven't intervened enough. They will advocate further intervention. But these are the voices that originally advised that intervention-lite, all done from the air with no "boots on the ground" would do the trick. We must remind ourselves that they were wrong then, that we have no reason to trust their advice now, and that a period of silence from the neocons would be...

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Welcome to the latest edition of the Times Opinion Podcast, Did You Read.

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My name is Tim Montgomery, and this week I'm joined by our political editor

1:04.4

Francis Elliot, a columnist Matthew Paris and defense editor Deborah Haynes.

1:10.8

David Cameron in Portugal, Ed Billaband in France, Nick Clegg in Spain, which of them will

1:16.4

most be enjoying their break.

1:18.9

Mr Cameron is famously good at chilaxing, but with the polls not so far following the economic growth figures, he arguably

1:25.3

has more to worry about than Mr. Millerband. It's Mr. Clegg, however, who most needs a break.

1:32.0

We need to prepare for a new onslaught by the Neocon who will now be resetting their advice on Libya

1:40.0

and saying that we should intervene. In the past, they said that it'll

1:44.3

gour be done from the air, boots on the ground, the Libyans would sort themselves out.

1:48.4

They plainly haven't sorted themselves out. Will the Neocon go silent? No. They'll say we need more intervention rather

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