Nick Clegg has an article in this morning's Guardian outlining his 100-day action plan to reform British politics: let us bar the gates of Westminster and stop MPs leaving for their summer holidays until this crisis has been sorted out, and every nook and cranny of our political system has been reformed.The Lib Dem leader's proposals are summarised in an accompanying news report: • ...

Lib Dem leader unveils 100-day plan to abolish Lords and reform voting following MPs' expenses row Britain's politicians should be barred from taking their summer holidays until the constitutional crisis sparked by the expenses row is resolved and "every nook and cranny" of the political system is reformed, Nick Clegg declares today. In a provocative Guardian article, the Liberal Democra...

The Guardian splashes with the story: Britain’s politicians should be barred from taking their summer holidays until the constitutional crisis sparked by the expenses row is resolved and “every nook and cranny” of the political system is reformed, Nick Clegg declares today. … Clegg, who regards the proposals floated by the two main parties as too timid,

Hopefully over breakfast this morning you will have seen the Guardian’s front page splash on Nick Clegg’s call for MPs to spend the next 100 days in Parliament radically reforming our political system. Other papers and the broadcasters are picking up this story and it is clear that Nick’s demand that MPs curtail their lengthy

The BBC's Brian Wheeler has a lengthy article here, arguing that a moment has arrived where wholesale reform of British politics is up for grabs:Anyone watching MPs debate emergency reforms to their expenses system will not have detected a whiff of revolution in the air.It felt like business as usual in the Commons chamber - the same exaggerated courtesy between "honourable members", the same

Nick Clegg has dismissed as "worthless" a plan by Gordon Brown to reform the voting system - in a further clear signal that the Liberal Democrats are more likely to support the Conservatives in a hung parliament.

From The Guardian: The Liberal Democrats today become the first mainstream party to declare they will not renew Britain’s Trident nuclear deterrent system with an equivalent modernised system, as parliament agreed in 2007. Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, told the Guardian he was making the move because of the rapidly deteriorating public finances and because

The Deputy Prime Minister says the system of benefits needs to return to the original vision set out during the creation of the welfare state.

Nick Clegg highlights the unique opportunity facing MPs to completely change Parliament. At Prime Minister's Questions Nick Clegg warned that incremental changes to Parliamentary rules are not sufficient as he urged the Government to fully embrace the need to transform politics in Britain. Nick argued that abuses of the Parliamentary expenses system are only part of what is damaging Brit...

Diet’s an old word for Parliament. Today, Nick Clegg’s combined both meanings in a practical, timetabled programme of reform that could start on Monday and slim down our bloated political system in 100 days of MPs’ work (shedding their Summer holidays). Lock the bastards in to open politics up – take back power! I want the right to sack my MP. I want to know MPs can’t...