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Nick Clegg Articles

A BBC without bottle isn’t a BBC worth having

Rejoice Remember a time when the country rejoiced in a happiness and optimism inspired by coalition government? Me neither. In fairness, this is because such a period never occurred. Not for Dave and Nick those sun-kissed halcyon days of May 1997, a liberated nation...

Littered with irony

Nigel Farage is presiding over the Europeanisation of British politics Political history is littered with ironies. Anthony Eden, who prided himself on his expertise in world affairs, was forced from office by his disastrous intervention in Suez. James Callaghan was...

We all know the prime minister is partial to chicken

I began Business Questions this week by responding to yesterday’s top line figures on jobs. Whilst we welcome any fall in unemployment, for millions of families up and down this country there is a grim reality lurking beneath the headlines. More and more people are...

A rumble in the Westminster jungle

It is incredible how fast a leopard can change his spots. Nick Clegg, standing in for David Cameron this week, went from performing his disassociation act at last week’s autumn statement to returning to laughable form as the Cameron-lite poster boy for four and a half...