Clegg caught out by open TV microphone

In comments which may raise eyebrows among Lib Dem supporters, the Deputy Prime Minister joked with his Conservative Coalition partner that they will not have anything to disagree about when the general election comes.

At the end of a meeting at which the two men fielded questions from Nottingham voters, Mr Cameron told their audience that the event may have been “a bit better natured between the two of us” than the TV debates would be during the 2015 election campaign.

But as they strode out of the meeting, Mr Clegg appeared to forget his TV microphone was still turned on and joked to the Prime Minister: “If we keep doing this we won’t find anything to bloody disagree on in the bloody TV debates.”