Rennard, Clegg and me: Cathy Newman upset at being booed

C4 News presenter who first broke the story is forced to question Clegg at mental health speech

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AS the Lord Rennard fiasco continues to haunt the Lib Dems, the journalist who first raised the allegations of sexual harassment against the peer, Cathy Newman of Channel 4 News, has re-entered the fray today. She says that Nick Clegg has refused repeated requests for an interview and that this morning this led to a huge embarrassment when she was forced to ask questions about Rennard at a press conference about mental health reform - and was booed as a result.

It was Newman who, in February 2013, presented an item on C4 News alleging not only that various women had complained about Lord Rennard harassing them, but that senior figures in the party knew about their complaints and had failed to take them seriously.

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Jack Bremer is a London-based reporter, attached to The Week.co.uk. He has reported regularly from the United States and France.