Pride's Purge

Officials say Lib Dem leader was probably at meetings where intelligence was discussed despite low level relevance vetting.

Downing Street has admitted that Nick Clegg is likely to have attended meetings on Afghanistan, counter-terrorism and UK military matters at which intelligence was discussed despite being completely irrelevant to anything.

Officials working for the PM have admitted it is “entirely probable” the Deputy Prime Minister, Cameron’s first coalition partner, would have also attended meetings on the highly sensitive strategic defence and security review despite his being utterly pointless.

Questions about Clegg’s appositeness first surfaced in July 2010 when it emerged that he was cleared to “pretty unimportant” level rather than “not very applicable to anything” level which would have involved investigators making more detailed background checks as well as asking much more searching questions such as “Who are you?” and “What did you say…

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