Nick Clegg

...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

...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

...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

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

...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

...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

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

...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

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

...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