England’s Tory Attorney General backs Nick Clegg

The Rugby Advertiser is not normally known for breaking top national political news. But there is a sensation running in the green fields of Warwickshire this week as England's Attorney General, Jeremy Wright, who was until the dissolution of Parliament also the MP for Kenilworth and Southam named Nick Clegg as the world's most admirable living political leader.

Interviewing Jeremy Wright the paper asked him to name the three political leaders he most admired. After the obligatory reference to Margaret Thatcher and the more interesting reference to Abraham Lincoln Mr Wright then named Nick Clegg for "putting the country's interests first in 2010". This makes Nick Clegg, in Jeremy Wright's view, the most admirable living political leader anywhere in the world.

This is a truly sensational result. We suspect that even some loyal Liberal Democrat party workers might place political leaders like Aung San Suu Kyi, who braved years of house arrest to try to restore democracy to Myanmar [formerly called Burma], above Nick Clegg.

Sadly the Rugby Advertiser has no sense of the news value of its own stories - this news which should have dominated the front page was relegated to page 10 of the 30 April 2015 edition of its paper.

David Cameron's reaction was unknown when this article was written.