Nick Clegg
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Steve Richards: Party leaders still fear the Holiday Test...mood did not extend beyond him and his dysfunctional government. Now the sentiment applies across the board, which is why Nick Clegg was astute to argue this week that the next few months should have been focused on sweeping political... In this article: David Cameron, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg, Labour, Neil Kinnock, Jim Callaghan, and Australia |
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Telegraph.co.uk - Politics | 2 days ago
MSP expense claims soar to GBP11 million
...charge mortgage interest on their second homes. They include many senior Liberal Democrats, despite Nick Clegg, the UK's party leader, saying he disapproves of MPs "making a penny of profit from taxpayer subsidies". Holyrood's expenses...
In this article: Roseanna Cunningham, Annabelle Ewing, Liberal Democrats, Tax, and Scottish Liberal Democrat
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Guardian | 2 days ago
Mandelson 'slashes' adult education spending
...and evening classes for the elderly are being cut and funds redirected to reskill the unemployed Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said the cuts would be a 'bitter blow to the hundreds and thousands of vulnerable people who will see...
In this article: Recession, Liberal Democrats, Association of Colleges, Mencap, and David Congdon
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Guardian | 2 days ago
Gordon Brown's bid to defuse youth unemployment timebomb
...dismissed the speech as full of "fake dividing lines" and "just a Labour press release printed on royal parchment paper". Nick Clegg said the speech came "from a government that has run out of road in a parliament that has lost the...
In this article: Gordon Brown, Unemployment, Labour, David Cameron, Charles Clarke, Tories, Beneficiary, and Recession
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Wales Online | 3 days ago
Queen's Speech is all about setting traps for Cameron
TODAY'S Queen Speech is likely to be long on pomp and ceremony - it always is - and a bit short on substance. No wonder Nick Clegg, the canny leader of the Liberal Democrats, saw an opportunity for some attention and called for the...
In this article: David Cameron, Mr Brown, Labour, Tories, Tax, Financial Services Authority, Carbon, and Liberal Democrats
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Telegraph.co.uk - Politics | 3 days ago
We have had enough of the most pointless Parliament for 350 years
...have their own reasons not to have the contest just yet, despite the fraud on the public that this coming few months will represent. Nick Clegg, the ex-lothario who now leads the Liberal Democrats, has gone so far as to say that Her Majesty's...
In this article: Waste, Easter, Liberal Democrats, and Donald Duck
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Independent.co.uk - UK | 4 days ago
The Big Question: What is the Queen's Speech, and does it serve any real purpose?
...Brown and David Cameron. Somewhere a few rows back, next to a middle-ranking minister, will be a disgruntled Nick Clegg. What is Clegg's beef? Though they call it The Queen's Speech, it is not, of course, the Queen's but rather Gordon...
In this article: Labour Party, House of Lords, Liberal Democrats, Prince Philip, and Robert Catesby
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Independent.co.uk - UK | 4 days ago
Harman attacks call to scrap Queen's Speech
By Nigel Morris, Deputy Political Editor The Government has hit back at Nick Clegg's call for tomorrow's Queen's Speech to be scrapped, accusing the Liberal Democrat leader of "pointless political posturing". Writing in The Independent...
In this article: Harriet Harman, Liberal Democrats, Waste, Labour, and Gordon Brown
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Guardian | 5 days ago
Harriet Harman accuses Nick Clegg of 'political posturing' over call to scrap Queen's speech
...delivers the Queen's speech in the House of Lords. Photograph: Alastair Grant/PA Harriet Harman today rejected a claim from Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, about the measures in the Queen's speech having no chance of becoming law...
In this article: Harriet Harman, Labour Party, Waste, Democracy, Liberal Democrats, House of Lords, and Britain
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Independent.co.uk - UK | 5 days ago
Nick Clegg: Cancel the Queen's Speech - and save democracy
By Nigel Morris, Deputy Political Editor Her Majesty setting out the Government's plans at the Lords Nick Clegg today issues a call for this week's Queen's Speech to be scrapped and replaced by an emergency programme of reform designed...
In this article: Waste, Liberal Democrats, John Bercow, House of Commons, and Democracy
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Guardian | 7 days ago
Free Radical by Vince Cable Book review
...to like about Vince Cable and much to admire. But nothing reveals the secret of his success as graphically as his persona. While Nick Clegg, his party leader, subscribes to the David Cameron theory that successful politicians ought to look and...
In this article: Vince Cable, Menzies Campbell, Roy Hattersley, Charles Kennedy, Yorkshire, Interregnum, Surgery, and Cancer
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Description from Wikipedia:
Nicholas William Peter Clegg (born 7 January, 1967), known as Nick Clegg, is the British Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam and, since 18 December, 2007, leader of the Liberal Democrats. He was appointed to the Privy Council on 30 January, 2008 and affirmed his membership on 12 March, 2008.
- Name At Birth:
- Nicholas William Peter Clegg
- Birth Date:
- January 07, 1967
- Birthplace:
- Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire
- Religion:
- None
- Nationality:
- British
- Spouse:
- Miriam Gonzalez Durantez
- University Attended:
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- University of Minnesota;
- Robinson College, Cambridge;
- College D'Europe
- Political party:
- Liberal Democrats
- Office:
- Liberal Democrats Home Affairs
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