Compared to many CoffeeHousers, I don’t find the Liberal Democrat’s foreign policy positions as problematic. Nick Clegg is smart, internationalist and has – unlike David Cameron and Gordon Brown (and Tony Blair) – plenty of foreign policy pre-leadership experience. But looking through the Lib Dem manifesto, I came across its pledge on Iran, which is quite problematic for a ...

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has outlined the general outlook of the UK coalition government's foreign policy before the United Nations General Assembly.

A quotation for your next Focus leaflet from this morning's Daily Mail: Libdem leader Nick Clegg deserves undiluted praise for speaking out against the bloodthirsty invasion of Gaza and calling for sanctions to be imposed on Israel. Again and again - on Iraq, Lebanon and now Gaza - the LibDems speak out for a foreign policy of which Britain can be proud, while the other parties sit on their h...

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

Today’s Independent reports that both Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne have joined forces to signal that the party is going to drop its passionate commitment to campaigning for the UK to sign up to the European single currency: Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, and the home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said it was no longer

There’s a good, in-depth and upbeat interview with Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg in today’s Newcastle Journal: A chipper Mr Clegg declared the North East would be his key hunting ground at the next general election and predicted that regional minister Nick Brown could even succumb to a Lib Dem sweep. … he stressed the North

Nick Clegg says his party has faced "testing times" in a New Year message aimed at calming grassroots Lib Dem concerns.

Nick Clegg the leader of the Liberal Democrats has said a mission "on the scale of the Apollo moon landings" is needed to end Britain's dependence on foreign energy supplies.

The foreign policy portion of tonight’s debate offers Nick Clegg several opportunities to bracket Labour and the Tories together. Both of them supported the war in Iraq, both won’t take the military option off the table when it comes to Iran and both believe in the centrality of the alliance with the US to UK foreign policy.   On this final point, it’ll be fascinating to see...

Nick Clegg’s pledge to go even further than the current Lib Dem commitment to cut the basic rate of income tax by 4p was the main topic for his interview on BBC Radio 4’s The Westminster Hour on Sunday night. You can listen to it here, and read the views of Lib Dem bloggers Linda