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Student admits throwing blue paint at Nick Clegg »

Nick Clegg

Former Liberal Democrat activist Stuart Rodger has admitted throwing an egg filled with blue paint at the Deputy Prime minister last August at a Liberal Democrat meeting in Glasgow. Mr Rodger told journalists after the event, “I stand by what ha...

Thu 09 Feb 2012 by Jonney Rhodes | Read more »

NUS target Clegg over tuition fees »

The National Union of Students (NUS) has called on Nick Clegg to explain his party’s stance on the raising of tuition fees for students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The controversy surrounding the rise in tuition fees has been exace...

Wed 18 Jan 2012 by Greg Bianchi | Read more »

Fury as Nick Clegg brands independence supporters “extremists” »

On a visit to Scotland last week, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg branded independence supporters “extremists” and claimed the Liberal Democrats held the “centre ground” of the debate on Scotland’s future. During the vis...

Wed 18 Jan 2012 by Andrew Barr | Read more »

Clegg's redemption? »

Speaking in the House of Commons on 5 April, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg valiantly took up the cause of the 'informal intern', condemning employers who exploit them and arguing that unpaid internships are a barrier to social mobility because they ...

Wed 20 Apr 2011 | Read more »

Clegg announces fight against unpaid internships »

Clegg launching his "Opening doors, breaking barriers" social mobility campaign

The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has launched a social mobility strategy designed to halt the growing trend of unpaid internships, stating that people should gain opportunities based on “what they know”, not who they know. Deputy Leade...

Wed 20 Apr 2011 by Andrew Barr | Read more »

Lib Dem resigns over Nick Clegg's 'lack of political will' »

A former chairman of the Keighley and Ilkley Liberal Democrats, Roger Beaumont, resigned from the party and criticised leader Nick Clegg on the party’s local website. Mr Beaumont, who stood as the Lib Dem candidate for the constituency of Keighl...

Wed 09 Feb 2011 by Marcus de Wilde | Read more »

Nick Clegg admits his election promise didn't "work out in practice" »

The Journal has obtained a personal letter from Nick Clegg to a Lib Dem political party candidate (PPC), acknowledging his divergence from the party's pledges to stop a rise in undergraduate tuition fees. In the letter to Ian Croll, PPC for North Shr...

Wed 24 Nov 2010 by Jonathan Baldie | Read more »

Clegg suggests tuition fees cap »

Clegg

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has indicated that tuition fees will be capped in England and Wales, apparently contradicting the advice of the Browne Report. In a Sunday morning interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr, the Liberal Democrat leader made ...

Wed 27 Oct 2010 by Jonathan Baldie | Read more »

Clegg announces plans to move Holyrood poll »

Scottish Parliament

Nick Clegg’s plans to change the timetable of Holyrood’s 2015 election have been met with claims the Deputy Prime Minister was showing “gross disrespect." The Westminster and Holyrood elections are due to be held on the same dat...

Wed 29 Sep 2010 by Marcus de Wilde | Read more »

Reviving our 'dead parrot' democracy »

Democracy in the UK is stone dead. Democracy is no more. It has expired and gone to meet its maker. It is bereft of life. It rests in peace. If we didn’t engage in the charade of voting every five years it would be pushing up the daisies. Its met...

Wed 29 Sep 2010 by Alex Cole-Hamilton | Read more »

Why I still agree with Nick- sort of »

I settled down in front of the TV on election night and genuinely thought I’d have a national result to celebrate by morning. My party leader, Nick Clegg, had blown the general election campaign wide open with his performances in the leaders&rsqu...

Wed 15 Sep 2010 by Paris Gourtsoyannis | Read more »

Referendum to be held on voting reform »

Fair Votes

MPs have moved closer to sanctioning a referendum on the Alternative Vote (AV), backing the proposal, a key plank to the Con-Lib coalition, at the opening of the new session of Parliament on 6 September. The referendum passed with 328 votes to 26...

Sun 12 Sep 2010 by Marcus de Wilde | Read more »

A chance for something different »

Clegg

You have a choice at this election. A choice to back a government in Westminster that will do what’s right for Scotland, for young people, and for you. You can sit back while Labour and the Conservatives fight over whose turn it is this time, con...

Wed 21 Apr 2010 by Nick Clegg | Read more »

Government has "failed" young people, says Tory MP »

Governmsent has "failed" young people, says Tory MP

The shadow secretary for universities and skills has criticised the government's failings on youth unemployment, claiming that new figures are a "damning indictment" for the prime minister. It had been reported that youth unemployment had reached almo...

Wed 25 Nov 2009 by James Fidler | Read more »

Skeletons in the closet »

Lib Dems

For the uninitiated, a gathering of Liberal Democrat party activists and elected members at first appears to be a particularly hostile environment to thrust oneself into so early on a Saturday morning. To begin with, amongst the hardly venue-busting...

Tue 20 Nov 2007 by Paris Gourtsoyannis | Read more »

Edinburgh hosts Liberal Democrat leadership debate »

Liberal Democrat leadership candidates at their party's hustings in Edinburgh

The Liberal Democrats have held their leadership hustings in Edinburgh as the party seeks a replacement for Sir Menzies Campbell.Leadership candidates Nick Clegg, MP for Sheffield Hallam, and Chris Huhne, MP for Eastleigh, near Southampton, addressed...

Mon 19 Nov 2007 by Paris Gourtsoyannis | Read more »

Huhne's afraid of Nick Clegg? »

Lighting the fire of debate

"Presentation, presentation, presentation:" if Nick Clegg is ever to adopt a mantra, then this should probably be it. A recent TV appearance saw him admitting to old bat-ears Andrew Marr that any major differences between himself and his only...

Mon 05 Nov 2007 | Read more »

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