As a result of the formation of the coalition Government, a number of responsibilities will be transferred from the Secretary of State for Justice to the Deputy Prime Minister. Nick Clegg has already been given special responsibility for political and constitutional reform; now Prime Minister David Cameron has listed the powers which will help Clegg bring

DEPUTY Prime Minister Nick Clegg hit out today at critics of the new coalition's plans to make it more difficult for MPs to force out the Government if it is defeated on a

The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, has restated the coalition government's aim to have British troops out of a combat role in Afghanistan by 2015. He was standing in for David Cameron for the first time in Prime Minister's Questions

Nick Clegg fights against Government’s shameful abandonment of Gurkhas At Prime Minister's Questions this week Nick Clegg outshone his political opponents and exposed the moral vacancy of the Prime Minister and his Labour Government. Nick accused the Prime Minister of giving evasive answers on the issue of the Gurkhas because he knows that what he and his government are doing is wrong. ...

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg warns Pakistan will need aid for years to come during a visit to the flood-hit country.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg hit out today at critics of the new coalition's plans to make it more difficult for MPs to force out the Government if it is defeated on a vote of confidence.

David Cameron, prime minister, and Nick Clegg, his deputy, raised the political stakes on delivering a military withdrawal from Afghanistan by 2015, as the coalition came under attack for 'mixed messages'

Pakistan's fragile coalition government has collapsed as ex-prime Minister Nawaz Sharif pulled his party, The Pakistan Muslim League-N(PML-N) out of the five-month-old coalition government with the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)less thanone week after ex-president Pervez Musharraf resigned. At a news conference Sharif cited 'broken promises' by Asif Ali Zardari, the leader of th...

The Deputy Prime Minister is going to scrap control orders… so we’re told… The deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, today confirmed that the control order regime will be replaced by the coalition government, ending the “virtual house arrest” of terror suspects. In a keynote London speech on civil liberties, Clegg said no final agreement had

Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, will attempt to wrestle some of the limelight away from his Conservative Coalition partners by claiming the Liberal Democrats are "joint architects of the Government's education policy".