A couple of years ago during the political conference season in Brighton, Radio 5live asked me to read a few palms at the Liberal Democrat Conference in Brighton. John Pienaar took me around the Grand Hotel looking for ‘victims’, and very qucikly we found Chris Huhne. At the time Mr Huhne was shadow for the Environment; as I was looking at his hands, John Pienaar was goading me about green policies, but what I was a powerful configuration of political fate coming up in a few years time, and that was what I focussed on.

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Events in the last few days in the British election shows what that political fate might be. Chris Huhne was central to the negotiating team for the coalition with the Conservative Party.  As I type, there is a rumour that Mr Huhne’s portfolio could well be Environment in the new coalition government.

There is a joke about the Lib-dems never having to seriously worry about political office in the UK, and that was the case when I read those palms the expectation was that they would have no influence. How times have changed.