Nick Clegg might suffer from a reputation for struggling to keep promises, but he claims to have made a breakthrough on one long-running ambition: to give up smoking.
The Deputy Prime Minister has become a convert to ‘
vaping’, in particular using a blueberry flavoured e-cigarette which helps him unwind at home in the evenings, with the occasional glass of Spanish white wine.
In 2011 Mr Clegg revealed he had gone ‘cold turkey’ to give up smoking, but it did not work.
Two years later he declared he was ‘off the ciggies’, but admitted it might not last. It didn’t.
But now there may have been a breakthrough. ‘It has taken a significant step in the right direction,’ he declared.
‘At the moment, at least for the last several weeks, I am off the fags and on the vapes. I’ve got some hilariously termed multi-voltage thing.
‘I haven’t smoked a cigarette in weeks. I’m not 100 per cent sure what the effect on my health is of these new battery powered things,’ he laughs.
‘You can put all different flavours in it. I have tried the blueberry, it’s good. I recommend the blueberry
vape. That’s quite different to the Marlboro Lights.’