The Independent today publishes an extrract from Nick Clegg’s speech to the National Liberal Club, marking the 150th anniversary of the first Parliamentary Liberal Party caucus. Here’s an excerpt from the excerpt: … in the battle of ideas the Liberal Democrats are winning. The first party to identify the dangers of an overleveraged banking system. The

Sandals are being rattled in Birmingham this morning. The Liberal Democrat conference opens to a chorus celebrating the party’s achievements in government. Nick Clegg tells the Independent that “Liberal Democrat fingerprints” are all over flagship coalition policies on schools, welfare, pensions, banking reform and the NHS reforms. He says of the latter that the Liberal Democrats...

Nick Clegg the Liberal Democrat leader won the overwhelming backing of his party yesterday to fight the next election on a taxcutting agenda.

Nick Clegg has been giving a speech at the think-tank Demos today, setting out his vision for what this Parliament should achieve – and what the Liberal Democrats should get from it. The heart of the argument is in this early section: Now that the Liberal Democrats are in government, liberal ideas are being deployed

Over at The Independent, Andrew Grice asks whether the "invisible" party leader — Nick Clegg — is in reality the Liberal Democrats' "secret weapon" who is simply not recognised widely enough to be perceived as such. At least I think that is the point being made... Clegg certainly hasn't been particularly visible, apart from at Prime Minister's Questions on many (though not all) occasions durin...

Having just listened to a very interesting IPPR podcast from their event last week featuring Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, it is clear that this thing called ‘liberalism’ matters enormously to him. He is, perhaps, the Liberal Democrat leader who has given most emphasis to the ‘liberal’ dimension of Liberal Democrat thought. It is

I've been away for a couple of weeks and return as confused as ever about the strategy being pursued by Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats. Nick Clegg: first this way, then that way Back in mid-July, I highlighted how Clegg appeared to be "talking Tory" on tax, only for him to announce at the end of the month that the party was to concentrate its efforts on trying to win...

Among the Liberal Democrat policy gains that Nick Clegg attributed to the coalition government in his party conference speech last month was the ending of child detention. The same claim was made in the Liberal Democrat ‘List of Achievements’ and in a speech at the National Liberal Club summing up the party’s record one year

Clegg’s first year: Clegg on Clegg | Tall on Clegg | Land on Clegg Complementing his piece for The Voice earlier today, Nick Clegg has also released a YouTube film to mark the anniversary of his election as Liberal Democrat leader: Joining in with the Nick Clegg’s annual performance review - Iain Dale gives his take, and

A powerful and passionate speech by Nick Clegg just now, his first as Liberal Democrat leader to his party's annual conference. In a rousing finale, he declared: "Labour is finished. It is over. The Liberal Democrats are...