Nick Clegg has told The Times that he might send his children to private schools. Moreover, he came up with the same boring old chestnut that "he would not play politics with his children's education". The question is, if you were an opposition activist in Sheffield, what would you be saying right now ? Sheffield, where Nick Clegg has his constituency, is a Lib Dem run council, it is, therefo...
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NorfolkBlogger on 14th Sep 2008 (via norfolkblogger.blogspot.com)
The Catch21 team has a casual chat with Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, on a range of topics from the current economic crisis to faith schools.
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TheWardmanWire on 20th Jul 2008 (via mattwardman.com)
One ally of the deputy Prime Minister suggested to me yesterday that the press was missing the most significant aspect of Clegg’s speech on education: Clegg acknowledging that free schools would now be a permanent part of the educational landscape. This ally argued that this was a big deal given that a year ago Lib Dem conference had voted to boycott these schools. The Lib Dem leader is cons...
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Spectator on 6th Sep 2011 (via spectator.co.uk)
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
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 19th Jan 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
Nick Clegg says his party has faced "testing times" in a New Year message aimed at calming grassroots Lib Dem concerns.
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BBCPolitics on 29th Dec 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
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
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 8th Sep 2008 (via libdemvoice.org)
Pushed for time, but want to keep up-to-date with how the campaign’s going? Here are today’s must-reads …. Nick Clegg launching Scottish Lib Dem election campaign (BBC) It will be almost like old times for the Lib Dems, with former leader Charles Kennedy joining Nick Clegg to launch the Lib Dems’ Scottish campaign – as CK himself
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 8th Apr 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
Hélène Mulholland: Nick Clegg faces the first serious test of his leadership today as delegates at the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth vote on his new mission statement for the party - including a bid to axe £20bn of Whitehall spending
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Guardian on 15th Sep 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
Nick Clegg does seem to be keeping busy. After his excellent work during the Gurkha vote, which incorporated the first outing of the Clegg-Cameron coalition, today's Telegraph contains this revelation: "Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, has privately authorised secret approaches to unhappy Blairites, trying to persuade them to join the Lib Dems instead of forming their own brea...
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Spectator on 2nd May 2009 (via spectator.co.uk)
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg is to launch his party's election bid in Scotland, as candidates continue their campaigns.
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BBCPolitics on 7th Apr 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Ramblings picks up on rumours that Nick Clegg has been booed at the Lib Dem conference. Iain Dale has also picked up on it. There is no surprise that there are splits in the Lib Dem camp but the future doesn’t look promising if they can’t even get along for a short period of time at their own conference! The leadership of Kirsty Williams and Nick Clegg have no narrative and offer very ...
