Nick Clegg has joined the roll call of politicians to have been caught out by a wireless microphone after being recorded joking about his closeness to his coalition partner David Cameron. The clip (above) was recorded after a joint press conference in Nottingham at which Clegg and Cameron were talking about a new 'enterprise zone'. As the pair walked off the set, Clegg is overheard saying to the prime minister: "If we keep doing this we won't find anything to bloody disagree about in the bloody TV debates!" Cameron can be seen politely laughing. Clegg's faux-pas, while slightly embarrassing because of the implicit acknowledgement that he is perhaps a little closer to a Conservative prime minister than many fellow Lib Dems would be comfortable with, is not quite on the scale of Gordon Brown's gaffe last year. The then-prime minister fell victim to a Sky News wireless microphone that he forgot to remove after a walkabout in Rochdale during which he was accosted by a pensioner who challenged him on immigration. As his car drove off, he was heard calling her a "bigoted woman". Filed under: Nick Clegg, Nick Clegg gaffe, Video, Nick Clegg videoNick Clegg gaffe caught on microphone
Deputy prime minister jokes about his close relationship to David Cameron (with video)
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Friday, 25 March 2011
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Nick Clegg prepares to unleash his rather close-to-the-bone joke
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