Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg warns of the risk of social unrest in the UK if public spending is cut without popular support.
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BBCPolitics on 16th Mar 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
The Lib Dem website reports that the party’s independent commission on social mobility - set up by Nick Clegg the day after he was elected leader - has published its full report: The Independent Social Mobility Commission, set up by Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg and chaired by Barnardo’s Chief Executive Martin Narey, has found that
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 12th Jan 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
Nick Clegg will today make a desperate attempt to stop Lib Dem support ebbing away to David Cameron's Conservatives.
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Telegraph on 23rd Sep 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Nick Clegg today delivered his widely trailed speech on improving social mobility today, marking the 100th day of the Lib Dem / Conservative Coalition Government. You can read the full text below, also available at the party website. Lib Dem Voice Co-Editor Mark Pack has put on his professional hat over at the Mandate blog
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 18th Aug 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
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...
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Spectator on 25th Aug 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg says the public could yearn for the "stability" of the eurozone as the downturn starts to bite.
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BBCPolitics on 21st Jan 2009 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
The cross party consensus on the British military mission in Afghanistan has been broken by Nick Clegg the Lib Dem leader with a warning that young lives are being "thrown away" by politicians.
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Telegraph on 8th Jul 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Nick Clegg is not normally reticent about commenting on the Middle East – see, for example, his public call for the international community to stop arming Israel 18 months ago. So why did it take more than a day for the Lib Dem leader to speak out against the “unjustifiable and untenable” blockade of the
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 1st Jun 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
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
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 1st May 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
There’s a rather remarkable feature in today’s Independent - a fair and balanced feature article highlighting Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg’s town hall tours. The first part focuses on what Nick’s learned from the process, and how he feels these Q&As have helped keep him grounded as leader: The public meetings have convinced him that all
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 2nd Feb 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
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
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 14th Sep 2008 (via libdemvoice.org)