Was it Watson wot won it?

The nailbiting finish to the Lib Dem leadership race has kept Westminster hacks on their toes up until Christmas. Congratulations are due to Nick Clegg on his victory.

I knew both as MEPs, but also Chris at university when he was in the Labour club on the anti-European far-left!

Interestingly, the result is close enough (511 votes, or less than one per cent) to suppose that the comments made by Graham Watson MEP, leader of the Alliance of Liberal and Democrat parties (ALDE) in the Parliament, in which he praised Clegg but worried that Huhne was not a team player, might have made the difference!