Nick Clegg reveals he owns a onesie (...and it's a gift from an Old Etonian tipped for PM) The Deputy Prime Minister made the admission during his first "Call Clegg" radio show. It came after he was asked by Mr Matthews: "Hi Nick, I am just wondering, are you a man of the people and have you ever worn a onesie?" Listeners were not told that Mr Matthews, 20, is acting chair of the national organisation Liberal Youth and a student in Sheffield where Mr Clegg won the onesie at a Liberal Youth event in October. In a newspaper interview in 2011 headlined "Spot the next prime minister" he admitted that he had given a speech praising Iain Duncan Smith at his Eton entrance exam. But he said that during the 2010 general election campaign he had had an "identity crisis" after watching Mr Clegg's live pre-election appeal on television, and switched parties. I was shocked. I just thought 'I agree with a lot of this'," he told the Observer. In the interview he shrugged off the party's down turn in electoral fortunes since joining the coalition. We were caught between a rock and a hard place when the coalition was elected, and whatever we had done would have been wrong. It is apparently not the first time that he has entered a public forum of political debate. After the last general election, he complained in an online comment that Eton pupils were not being given the day off when David Cameron, himself an Old Etonian, became Prime Minister. His question about the onesie came as Mr Clegg took the first of weekly questions on LBC as part of an effort to reconnect with voters. Some polls now show the Lib Dems trailing behind Ukip at around 10 per cent of the vote as the party has lost supporters to Labour after going into Coalition. Mr Clegg is not the first politician to admit that he owns a onesie. London Mayor Boris Johnson last month admitted that he owns a Union Jack onesie. "I have a very remarkable James Bond style union jack onesie," Mr Johnson wrote during a Twitter question and answer session. City Hall aides subsequently admitted that the Mayor had worn the outfit once in his office but that he found it "a bit warm." Winston Churchill also had his own version of the onesie. The wartime leader wore a so-called "siren suit" that he designed himself and had tailored in bottle-green velvet by Jermyn Street's Turnbull & Asser. The suits were made to be worn during long nights spent in shelters working through air raids.