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Clegg: Scrap legislative programme in favour of reform

16.11.09
Gordon Brown should scrap his proposed legislative programme and devote the final months of this Parliament to cleaning up Westminster, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said... more

PM targets City's rule-breakers in 'short, sharp' Queen's Speech

16.11.09
Crackdown on City risk-taking, bonuses and fraud will be a key plank of Gordon Brown's pre-election Queen's Speech, it has emerged... more

Mr Brown fires the election starting gun

16.11.09
It was always inevitable that this week's Queen's Speech to Parliament would be highly political... more

Clegg: Here's why you should elect me as Prime Minister

23.09.09
Nick Clegg today presented himself as a future Prime Minister in a high-risk bid to convince voters to take his party seriously... more

Clegg turns on 'hollow' Tories as Lib-Dems squabble over cuts

23.09.09
Nick Clegg winds up a stormy Liberal Democrat conference by urging voters not to turn to the 'hollow' Conservatives... more

Clegg: We will push Labour into third

17.09.09
Nick Clegg claims the Liberal Democrats can push Labour into third place as voters turn their backs on Gordon Brown... more

Lib-Dems demand end to bonuses for bank directors

16.09.09
City's most senior bankers should not receive bonuses says Nick Clegg as he calls for regulations to create a 'firewall' between bank directors and the bonus culture... more

Lib Dems appeal to public sector workers on savings

28.08.09
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg appealed for ideas from public sector workers about how to save taxpayers' money... more

Nick Clegg: I’ll scale back key policies to balance books

22.07.09
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg is to axe many of his party’s flagship policies, downgrading a string of key plans to 'aspirations'... more

We are winning against the Taliban, insists Army chief

09.07.09
British Army chief insists his troops are winning the battle against the Taliban despite growing questions over the military campaign... more

Pour in more troops or pull out of Afghan war, says Clegg

09.07.09
Britain should either pour thousands more troops into Afghanistan or pull out, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg warned... more

Clegg acts on ‘speculators’ after MP’s daughter uses flat bought on expenses

13.05.09
Nick Clegg pledged action against any Liberal Democrat MP who behaved like a “property speculator” with Commons expenses... more

Really, how can being out of a job be 'liberating'?

19.02.09
When men started appearing at the school gate in increasing numbers, I thought I was imagining things. Then I realised: it's the recession, stupid... more

Clegg’s ‘new age of austerity’ budget targets middle classes

09.02.09
Government spending should be slashed by £20 billion to reflect the “new age of austerity” being felt by the public, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg declared... more

Cash for best schools to take poor pupils

05.02.09
Top state schools will get extra cash to teach more working-class children in a scheme which has received enthusiastic backing from the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats... more

Give men a year off work to bring up baby, urges Clegg

07.01.09
Men should be able to take up to a year off work after becoming fathers, says Nick Clegg... more

Clegg told to stop 'annoying' calls

25.09.08
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has been ordered to stop plaguing voters after a cold-calling blitz... more

Clegg tells Lib-Dems: We're on our way to power

17.09.08
Nick Clegg has branded Labour the "zombie Government" and told Liberal Democrats they are heading into power... more

Sketch: He'd bring Liberal grit to a Cameron government

17.09.08
Well he can walk the walk. Never mind tax cuts and public service reform pledges, Nick Clegg established himself in the mainstream of podium politics in his first leader's speech, pacing around the stage as if searching for a lost cufflink. Only Gordon Brown stands still these days... more

Leader's pension gaffe damages 'man of the people' speech

17.09.08
The shine could be taken off Nick Clegg's conference speech today by a blunder on pensions and his decision to cold-call 250,000 voters... more

Lib-Dems launch tax cut battle for Middle England

16.09.08
Nick Clegg will promise tax cuts for 28 million Britons after turning the Liberal Democrats' guns firmly on to the Tories... more

'TV adverts are robbing our children of their innocence'

11.09.08
Britain is failing to protect children's innocence and allowing toddlers to be bombarded by TV advertising, Nick Clegg warned... more

Clegg: Cut taxes and slash back spending to ease recession pain

11.09.08
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg called for deep tax cuts for millions of Britons and warned voters expected the Government to tighten its own belt in the "looming recession"... more

The Cleggs ditch Ocado to ease pain of credit crunch

22.08.08
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg claimed he was feeling the pain of the credit crunch as he revealed that he had switched his weekly shop from upmarket Ocado to Sainsbury's... more

Brown rejects 50% tax on £100,000 wage-earners

17.07.08
Downing Street has rejected calls for a new super-tax band on people earning more than £100,000... more

Clegg: Influx of migrants is affecting our schools

28.04.08
Pupils are suffering because schools are struggling to cope with mass immigration, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has warned. ... more

Thirty women? That's 25 more than most of us

02.04.08
I laughed when Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg admitted to sleeping with "no more than 30" women. Interviewed by Piers Morgan for GQ magazine, he was initially reticent... more

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