Lord Bonkers' Diary: Nick Clegg in the boathouse

Clegg arrives at the Hall in a car that looks rather the worse for recent collisions: “I've decided to stop looking in the rear-view mirror,” he explains breezily. He tells me he wants to lie low for a while as he has upset rather a lot of people lately.

“You will be quite safe here,” I assure him. “Why don’t you hide in my boathouse? No one will think of looking for your there.”

Later I walk down to the Bonkers’Arms, where I recall they have one of those telephones with a Button B....

Lord Bonkers was Liberal MP for Rutland South-West 1906-10.

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