The Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshott has told ITV News he is sure he never discussed the issue of Chris Huhne's speeding points with Vicky Pryce:
– Lord OakeshottVicky must have been under great pressure but I am sure she never raised a question of points with me.
Nick Clegg has defended his leadership, saying there are "always back-seat drivers as long as I've been in politics," after former Lib Dem Treasury spokesman Lord Oakeshott indicated the party should oust Mr Clegg to win the next election.
A senior Liberal Democrat peer has indicated that the party must oust leader Nick Clegg if it wants to avoid electoral disaster in 2015.
Former Lib Dem Treasury spokesman Lord Oakeshott told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that they had lost "over half our market share".
"If you like to put it that way if we had been Sainsburys, since the election and any business that had done that would be looking very hard now at both its strategy and its management to see how we get some of that back."
"Otherwise we are going to lose a large number of seats at the next election", Lord Oakeshott said.