Nick Clegg's radio phone-in: what's his policy on onesies?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/shortcuts/2013/jan/10/nick-clegg-radio-phone-onesie

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Americans get a weekly presidential video address. This morning we got Deputy PM Radio. Call Clegg, on London's LBC station, sees the deputy prime minister take a masochistic live public grilling each week in a bid to win back the hearts, minds and, ideally, votes of the nation. As an added bonus, if he fails it also serves as work experience for a new career.

It was a popular debut. LBC became a trending topic on Twitter, calls flooded in, and it seemed for a moment as if half the world was queuing up to quiz, bother and berate the Lib Dem leader. So, determined to be a part of this historic broadcast to the nation, I picked up the phone.

It took me eight attempts to reach a human. On the eighth, a clearly swamped assistant producer barked "What's your question?", and I stumbled through a vague approximation of "Do you ever regret not joining the Conservatives when you were younger?" Between the blunt, accusatory question and my inability to ask it, it was clear I was not about to go head-to-head with the most powerful man in Nick Clegg's office. "Thanks," said the producer, "we've got your number."

Luckily, a few colourful characters with significantly better questions made it through. There was John, for example, a long-time Liberal Democrat who claimed he had torn up his membership card in revulsion, before proceeding to read the party's values off the back of it. And Lauren, a journalism student from Birmingham, whom Clegg argued would only feel the full effect of tuition fees if she went on to become a hedge fund manager.

In the end, final caller Harry blew everybody else out of the water, asking: "Are you a man of the people and have you ever worn a onesie?" Clegg's answer should singlehandedly bring the onesie craze to an end. "I was actually given a big green onesie in Sheffield, which I have kept in its packaging." And what would it take for him to wear it? "It would almost certainly be something I would do in the privacy of my own living room." If this phone-in doesn't work he may yet find he has plenty of time to try it.