Nick Clegg’s startlingly honest assessment of the Lib Dem campaign

The Liberal Democrat leader said that the campaign had so far been “methodical” and he wasn’t expecting “starburst”.

He told journalists on his battle bus: “It’s not going to be a starburst campaign where there’s a Damascene conversion where everyone says ‘hallelujah, the Liberal Democrats are right’.

“It’s not going to be like that, it’s a much more incremental campaign where we are trying to build up the case and, so far at least, our opponents just as much as ourselves are helping to make our case for us.”