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No 10 adviser Adrian Beecroft accuses Clegg of 'threatening to go nuclear'

Adrian Beecroft has accused Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg of "always threatening to go nuclear" when he does not get his way Credit: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

Downing Street adviser Adrian Beecroft has attacked Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg for "always threatening to go nuclear" when he does not get his way.

The venture capitalist said: "Nick Clegg is always threatening to go nuclear and dissolve the whole thing if he doesn't get his way with this, that and the other.

"Which you'd think actually must be a hollow threat... Therefore, why can't the Government be more robust? I don't know what the answer is. But it is disappointing."

His comments were made in an interview with the Daily Telegraph in which he also accused the Business Secretary Vince Cable of being a socialist who "appears to do very little to support business".