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Churchill and Clegg

At the 1847 general election William Gladstone was elected MP for Oxford University as a “Liberal Conservative”
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Sir, The political traffic between the Conservative and Liberal parties is not all one way in the Tories’ favour (“The Tory embrace”, leading article, June 25). At the 1847 general election, after the repeal of the Corn Laws, William Gladstone was elected MP for Oxford University as a Peelite free trade “Liberal Conservative”. Then there is the example of Winston Churchill, who ratted on the Conservatives and then “re-ratted” on the Liberals.

Might not Nick Clegg reasonably conclude that anything that was good enough for Gladstone or Churchill is good enough for him?

Paul Wilder
London SE11