4.48pm BST Afternoon summary “Our place is in government again.” That’s the final sentence of the speech, and, in a nutshell, it sums up Nick Clegg’s message. It’s neatly ambiguous – in government with whom? Either the Tories or Labour, Clegg is saying – and it cements Clegg’s point about wanting to make the Lib Dems a permanent party of government. Which also means making Britain a party of permanent coalition government. As I said earlier (see 12.21pm), superficially Clegg’s line about the Lib Dems being the “coalition party” (my phrase) is attractive. If you assume that more than 60% of the electorate are not planning to vote Labour, and even more are not planning to vote Conservative, then there is a large constituency to whom the idea of another hung parliament could conceivably appeal. But there’s also a dash of entitlement in this which Clegg’s critics may find either risible, or unattractive, or both. The speech was well trailed, and there were no policy surprises in what Clegg had to say. His decision to itemise at length the Conservative ideas that the Lib Dems have blocked was new and effective (and it will be interesting to see if the…