Should Labour make it across the line, the reality of having to govern could be overwhelming, the Lib Dem coalition years adviser recalls
I arrived at Downing Street half an hour before Nick Clegg – two colleagues and I the only familiar faces among a sea of strangers waiting to welcome him behind the famous black door.
Everything about those first weeks was hyper-real. There is always something strange about being in a place you know well from TV, but have never been to. Trying to work in such a place sometimes feels like you might be acting on a film set. For me and my Liberal Democrat colleagues it was particularly disorienting because, let’s face it, nobody joins the Lib Dems with the expectation they’ll end up in government.
