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When the US Ambassador Robert Tuttle visited Cardiff in 2007, he brought his wife Maria with him. Her ancestors, she told journalists, were Welsh and she was trying to track them down.

The problem for Mrs Tuttle was that while she was telling us this, she was wearing a Burberry coat - the luxury brand company who were in the process of closing their factory in Treorchy and moving production to the Far East where labour was cheaper.

Wikileaks hasn't revealed what Mrs Tuttle thought of the headlines she generated here but .

According to Mr Opik, Nick Clegg "surrounded himself with insiders who carry out his wishes without consulting others, thus allowing Clegg to avoid direct confrontation, a trait some party members have pointed out to us as one of his failings. According to Opik, Clegg's thin skin also showed itself during the lead-up to the March 5 fiasco, when Clegg derided one of Opik's suggestions in front of the Lib Dem cabinet, then adopted it without telling Opik. When Opik confronted Clegg about it, Opik says he was immediately whisked away by a Clegg crony who begged him not to make a scene in public".

"Relaxed" doesn't do justice to the response from the Welsh Liberal Democrat press office. "He's been in the jungle. Who cares."

Not Lembit Opik, you imagine, who'd probably rather eat a plateful of witchetty grubs than a slice of humble pie

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