Press Review:

BBC: Clegg joins Lib Dem leader race

Independent: Clegg: We must broaden our electoral appeal or face oblivion

Telegraph: Senior Lib Dems line up behind Clegg

Guardian: Boost for Clegg as potential rival stands aside

The press coverage of the Lib Dem leader's race today is fairly non-descript.

However, it is a blog entry from yesterday on the Times' website which is most interesting, providing an insight into Nick Clegg's thinking on the thorny issue of Europe. Clegg is clearly someone who could easily be branded by the Conservatives as overly European, and, to make the point, one rabid Tory MP failed to restrain himself yesterday in the New Statesman: 

In refreshing Tory tradition, there is always one MP who does not hold back: "Nick Clegg is a screaming Euro-fanatic man-child; he's half Dutch; he should be called Nick Clog."

This sort of attack is unlikely to be damaging to Clegg during the leadership race (and could help him) but it could prove a greater political worry should he win the leadership. Clegg has clearly been doing some of the thinking necessary to carve out a distinctive, pro-European, but not uncritical, position on Europe.