A fabulously passive-aggressive tweet-exchange between Jeremy Browne and Nick Clegg
by Stephen Tall on December 1, 2014
Relations between Jeremy Browne and Nick Clegg have not been happy since the Lib Dem leader removed him from his ministerial post. A few weeks ago he announced he was quitting parliament at the next election. When David Cameron paid tribute to him at a recent PMQs, Jeremy tweeted, a touch plaintively:
The Prime Minister just told me that he was sorry I’m standing down. First party leader to say that to me since I announced it. Appreciated.
— Jeremy Browne (@JeremyBrowneMP) October 29, 2014
And it doesn’t look like Jeremy was too chuffed today to have once again been overlooked by Nick. Here’s his fabulously passive-aggressive reply to an announcement by the Deputy Prime Minister: 
I suspect the Lib Dem press office got the message. Their tweet was more generous:
David Laws, @JeremyBrowneMP, @tessamunt and David Heath have led the campaign to improve the A303. In Government @LibDems are delivering it — Lib Dem Press Office (@LibDemPress) December 1, 2014
All snark aside, it’s all a bit of a sorry ending for Jeremy, who’s been a stalwart Lib Dem for the past two decades, as Ed Fordham pointed out on LibDemVoice here.
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