LIBERAL DEMOCRATS turned on their party leader Nick Clegg yesterday with calls for him to stand down following their electoral disaster.

Councillors and would-be MPs were among the 600 party members who co-signed the LibDems4Change open letter in which Mr Clegg is described as the wrong person to lead the party for the general elections.

“Although I admire enormously Nick’s bravery, it does not follow that because the captain should go down with the ship that the ship has to go down with the captain,” said Southport MP John Pugh.