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...

This will induce the nearest thing LibDem nerds get to a simultaneous orgasm over politics. In tomorrow's Guardian, Nick Clegg proposes a breathtaking 100 day plan to reform British politics. He says that MPs should not go on holiday until their wholesale reinvention of the whole system. His article is entitled "Bar the gates. No summer holiday before the overhaul". This is great stuff! Nick Clegg...

Nick Clegg is eviscerated by this morning's press. The Independent, The FT and The Guardian gleefully report that the influential IFS has decreed the Budget (supposedly a model of fairness according to Clegg) to be regressive, that there is discontent fomenting on the Lib Dem benches and that the latest polls place Lib Dem support at 12 percent. None of this is news. The IFS is reiterating wh...

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 electoral reform arms race it seems is in full flow. Writing in the Guardian today, challenging Cameron’s supposed mantle as reformer-in-chief, the Libdem leader today lays out his 100-day plan. “Let us bar the gates of Westminster and stop MPs leaving for their summer holidays until this crisis has been sorted out,” he says, rather

Liberal Democrats have good reason to be happy for a moment with Britain’s most mealy-mouthed newspaper. Yesterday, Nick Clegg launched his Take Back Power 100-day campaign in a Guardian article. Today, their editorial is full of praise for us: “The party championed reform when it was unfashionable. The difference is that other parties are now competing to match them. The Lib Dem leade...

Nick Clegg will tonight renew the Lib Dem call for proportional representation committing the party to electoral reform and announcing a sustained campaign to reconnect with the electorate.

Today’s Guardian carries an in-depth interview with Nick Clegg (it’s labelled ‘Exclusive’, which seems a rather optimistic boast during an election campaign when the Lib Dem leader gives interviews every day). Much of what he says will be familiar to readers of his pamphlet, The Liberal Moment, in which Nick made clear that the Tories

No, you weren’t dreaming - you really did wake up to news headlines dominated by the leader of the Lib Dems promenading the party’s proposals to reform the UK’s democratic processes. Full marks to the party’s media operation today - it’s a long time since an article by a Lib Dem has made such a