Archive: Nick Clegg

Lords reform strategies starting to emerge

Nick Clegg at the despatch box revealed the coalition's Lords reform strategy

Kicking politicians upstairs, the 'minimum fuss' approach and the money factor will all matter in the Lords reform debate to come.

Clegg's shifting rhetoric on Lords reform

Consensus still elusive on Lords reform

Dizzying Lords reform debate won't end prettily

Britain 'too snobby', Clegg warns

Patricia Routledge and Clive Swift in the 90s sitcome Keeping Up Appearances

British snobbery is "hobbling our economy", Nick Clegg has claimed.

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Clegg's shifting rhetoric on Lords reform

Nick Clegg says introducing elections to the Lords will help the second chamber be less political. Er - really?

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Clegg: Recall of MPs is just a backstop

MPs won't be recalled for political purposes, Clegg insists

Plans to give voters the ability to recall MPs are not being introduced to give politics an "aggressive tool", Nick Clegg has told MPs.

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Clegg hopes to break party funding impasse

Lib Dem leader has responsibility for party funding reform

Redistributing public money already spent on helping political parties could prove the key to ending Westminster's deadlock over party funding, Nick Clegg hopes.

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Desmond Tutu leads demands for Britain to back down over Falklands

Desmond Tutu is one of the most celebrated figures in modern South Africa

Desmond Tutu was among five Nobel Prize laureates putting pressure on Britain to negotiate with Argentina over sovereignty of the Falklands Islands last night.

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Clegg rejects Argentine 'baseless insinuations' over Falklands

The clash comes amid growing diplomatic tensions between Britain and Argentina as the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War approaches.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has denied claims by the Argentinean government that Britain has sent a nuclear submarine to the South Atlantic.

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Clegg: Every liberal can be proud of this Budget

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is in triumphant mood as he gives his views on the Budget to Lib Dem activists:

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Budget 2012: Clegg insists rich 'will pay more'

Mr Clegg said the government is committed to progressive taxation and protecting the poor.

The coalition believes the wealthiest should "bear the heaviest burden", Nick Clegg has told MPs, ahead of the expected demise of the 50p top rate in tomorrow's Budget.

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Clegg tells business leaders new plan for stability

The deputy PM wants to encourage businesses to be owned by their employees

Employee ownership of the companies they work for should be encouraged to secure growth, the deputy prime minister is expected to say today.

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PMQs sketch: Punchy Clegg is the right kind of lightweight

Like John Cleese at his most agitated, or a prize fighter skipping around the ring

With David Cameron off in Washington trying to alter the leader of the free world's initial impression that he is a bit of a lightweight, this was an opportunity for Clegg to prove his own fighting credentials.

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'Fight division': Clegg stakes out pro-European position

Nick CLegg: "It is only by working together that we have any hope of tackling the new threats."

Nick Clegg will set out his pro-European credentials tonight, in a Hague speech aiming to boost continental cooperation despite the eurozone crisis.

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Clegg: We want tax cuts, not benefits, for the middle class

The deputy prime minister told Sky News Sunrise that the government is committed to making child benefit fairer.

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Govt in 'disarray' after Clegg's NHS intervention

In the firing line: Lansley will not welcome having to explain the letter in the Commons

The government was accused of being in "disarray" today, after Nick Clegg's letter demanding further amendments to NHS reform was debated in the Commons.

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Dizzying Lords reform debate won't end prettily

Round and round in circles they went. Eventually the Lords reform debate will get so giddy with dizziness it will fall off the coalition's merry-go-round for good.

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Clegg doggedly pursues Lords reform despite growing anger

Clegg was put in charge of constitutional reform in the coalition agreement

Nick Clegg will face a parliamentary committee today to lay out the case for an elected upper house.

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Give the young jobs, Clegg begs businesses

Nick Clegg is appealing to Britain's businesses to take on more young people as the coalition continues to face a bleak economic outlook.

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Clegg's wife 'sides against Huhne'

Nick Clegg with his wife, Miriam Gonzalez Durantez

Nick Clegg's wife offered Vicky Pryce a place to stay after she discovered she will face charges alongside her former husband Chris Huhne, according to a report.

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Another voter registration retreat in the offing?

Clegg gave evidence to the Lords constitution committee this morning

Clegg gave a clear suggestion that further concessions can be expected from the government.

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Clegg taunts 'cowardly' SNP over independence referendum

Nick Clegg in confrontational mode over Scottish independence

Scottish nationalists should have the "courage of their convictions" and accept an independence referendum sooner rather than later, Nick Clegg has said.

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Clegg: Income tax moves will help working families

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg outlines his plans to do more to help support working families:

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Clegg ready to make rich help 'alarm clock Britain'

Clegg wants personal allowance increased to £10k sooner rather than later

Nick Clegg has pledged to accelerate moves to remove income tax payments for the first £10,000 people earn.

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Nick Clegg's City speech in full

Nick Clegg answers questions after his speech to the City

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg delivered a speech to a City audience at Mansion House this morning, in which he proposed the creation of a 'John Lewis economy'. Here's the text in full:

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