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

Nick Clegg will have enjoyed reading this morning’s Guardian editorial (Nick Clegg: Liberal parenting) over his breakfast porridge today. The paper commends Nick for yesterday’s launch of the principles which will underpin the Lib Dems’ election manifesto. At the same time it betrays the Guardian’s usual unawareness of the party’s democratic decision-making principles...

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: • ...

Nick Clegg would resist overtures from a new prime minister as strongly as he would the current one, senior Liberal Democrat figures have told the Guardian. The Lib Dem leader believes Labour is finished regardless of who leads the party, and as one close aide put it: "The sort of discussions they [Labour] need to have can't take place in government – they need to go into the wilderness...

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

Here’s a welcome problem to have this morning … wading our way through the sheer volume of media news that’s positive for the Lib Dem following Nick Clegg’s terrific performance in last night’s televised lesaders’ debate. Let’s make a start with the newspaper editorials: Nick Clegg’s night (Guardian) Expectations shape reactions, which is why Britain...

  Iain Dale  has picked out a tasty morsel from Nick Clegg's FT interview this morning. The LibDem leader is talking coalition-building in remarkably explicit terms. According to the FT: "Any deal with a larger party would focus on implementing core Lib Dem policies, which Mr Clegg said he would identify over the next months. These could include cutting taxes for low and middle...

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

Over at The Guardian’s Comment Is Free blog yesterday, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg wrote about Jack Straw’s attack on the Human Rights Act. (An issue which has also today provoked the ire of Lib Dem peer Lord Lester). Read it in full here, but here’s an excerpt of Nick’s trenchant critique: The justice secretary is

The Guardian carries a sensationalist headline tonight: Revealed: Lib Dems planned before election to abandon tuition fees pledge. The truth is somewhat different from the newspaper’s anti-Lib Dem spin, however. The story is clearly designed to make the reader believe that, even as Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems spoke out against tuition fees, it