Nick Clegg has urged voters to give the Liberal Democrats another chance, after admitting his party have been tainted by government.
At the Liberal Democrat conference, the Deputy Prime Minister acknowledged that he was "no longer the "untainted... fresh-faced outsider", vowing to learn from the "mistake" of his infamous U-turn on university tuition fees.
Justice Minister Simon Hughes has described Nick Clegg's conference speech as the Lib Dem leader's "best ever".
"He has been in absolutely top form all week," Mr Hughes said.
In contrast, he claimed the Labour conference had been "flat as a pancake" with a "disaster" of a speech from Ed Miliband, while the Tory conference had been characterised by "very nasty policies".
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