Nick Clegg descended into a union-bashing diatribe yesterday after MPs confronted him about a swathe of job losses planned by one of the bosses bankrolling his re-election bid.
Autofill Yarns managing director Anthony Ullmann has pledged £34,500 to help the troubled Lib Dem leader cling on to his Sheffield Hallam seat.
But filling in at Prime Minister’s Questions for David Cameron yesterday, Mr Clegg shrugged off worries that the Nottingham firm plans to throw 134 people out of work by moving production to Bulgaria.
The present drive to war is a cynical and deliberate diversion from deteriorating living standards, argues MATT KERR
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES


