El Gordo's Get Out of Jail card?

Does El Gordo have a constitutional get out of jail card, and is it called PR? They may just be kite-flying, but the Indy this morning has a speculative piece saying that Jack Straw's Ministry of Justice will this week set out options for replacing Westminster's first-past-the-post system. No other newspaper seems to have picked up the story, and we couldn't find mention of it on the Justice ministry website, so, Colin Brown, deputy political editor of the Indy, if this is all made-up we're going to be cross.

But Brown's story does hold out the intriguing possibility that as Labour's safe majority becomes more and more vulnerable, the appetite of Brown and those around him for some significant electoral reform may grow. And the key beneficiary of that will be, of course, Cleggers. Colin Brown reckons Straw is keen on the additional vote system, and he has this quote:

"Jack would support AV, if there is a hung Parliament," said a senior minister. "It could be discussed after the next election."

On the other hand, Clegg seems to want to move the LibDems rightwards, and on Andrew Marr's show this weekend he was having to fend off talk of partnerships with the Tories, not Labour. And it would be hard to see how Clegg could do a deal with Labour if Brown was still touting ID cards and 42 days detention-without-trial. But, as ever, as things tighten, the role of the LibDems, and their potential power, becomes more and more interesting.