LIB Dems have ditched Nick Clegg from campaign literature as his broken vows have made him so “toxic” with voters.

Even party activists in the Deputy PM’s home city of Sheffield are handing out election leaflets that do not feature a picture of him.

And it emerged last night that the Lib Dem leader in Liverpool, Warren Bradley, has called for Mr Clegg to pull out of the Coalition before the party “disappears into the annals of history”.

In a confidential email to Mr Clegg, Mr Bradley blamed the pact with the Tories for the Lib Dems’ looming disaster in next month’s elections.Mr Bradley, who led the city council for five years, said: “The boil is about to come to a head and burst (probably on election night).”

In the email marked private, he added: “Many other long serving councillors could be defeated not because of their record but because of your record and the perception of what we as Lib Dems now are.”

Before the contents of the email came to light, he distanced himself from Mr Clegg by saying: “We couldn’t possibly use him as part of our campaign. I think it would be a really bad move to do so.

“I think Nick Clegg would probably say ‘for God’s sake, keep me away from your campaign’.”

In Scotland, Lib Dem candidates have also axed Mr Clegg from their material.

Scotland’s Lib Dem leader, Tavish Scott, admitted that Mr Clegg makes him “grimace” and said the pact with the Tories at Westminster had made his campaign “difficult”. Clive Betts, Labour’s MP for Sheffield South East, said: “As the man who embodies their broken promises, Nick Clegg is becoming more and more toxic to his own party.”