Nick Clegg was born in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire in 1967. He attended Caldicott school in South Buckinghamshire and then Westminster school before going to Robinson College, Cambridge. In 1993 he was the first person to win the Financial Times David Thomas Prize as a journalist writing about the privatisation of businesses in the old Soviet Union. He then became heavily involved in aid organisations before being appointed as a policy adviser and speech writer for the European Union. He started working with the Liberal Democrats in 1999 and became a MP in 2004. In 2006 he became the Home Affairs spokesman for the Liberal Democrats and was elected as party leader in 2007. In May 2010 Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats failed to perform as well as expected in the General Election but then formed a coalition government with the Conservatives. Nick Clegg is now Deputy Prime Minister under David Cameron.
If the general election were a 1500-metre race for the candidates and for the increasingly large numbers of punters who have been "taking an interest", then the bell for the final lap is about to ring out... more
Interview: He's a tiny bit more ginger than you expect, close up, is St Nick. Just a tiny bit, but it shows. His eyebrows have a very pale orangey tinge, as if - like the rest of the country - they are thinking of voting Lib-Dem... more
Last week, the Standard’s panel of undecided voters agreed Nick Clegg won the first TV debate, but said it would not change their vote. After last night’s grilling, half say they might now vote Lib-Dem... more
Amid the furious spinning over the results of last night’s leaders’ debate, one fact is indisputable: Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats are still in this race... more
Senior Liberal Democrats said Nick Clegg cemented his party's position in a genuine 'three horse race' by coping with attacks from both his rivals in the televised leaders' debate... more
It was closer, but Nick Clegg triumphed again - using positive messages to win over voters and repel his rivals' attacks, body language experts said... more
David Cameron seeks to knock the shine off Nick Clegg’s astonishing rise in the polls with a harder, more confident performance in the second TV debate... more
Media Analysis: A couple of weeks ago, the presenter of Have I Got News For You, Alexander Armstrong, won a lot of laughs with a gag about the anonymity of Nick Clegg by referring to him as “the other one". Not now... more
Nick Clegg launches a scathing personal attack on Gordon Brown branding him a 'desperate politician' who had systematically blocked political reform... more
EXCLUSIVE: Nick Clegg's surge in the polls is 'soft', leaving everything to play for as the party leaders prepare for their second TV debate, the Evening Standard reveals... more
Prospect of a Lib-Lab deal was raised as Lord Mandelson hailed Nick Clegg as a figure to be 'taken seriously' and hinted strongly at electoral reform as a sweetener in a hung parliament... more
Just as the consequences of the volcano illustrate chaos theory, so the disruptive aberration of Nick Clegg may unexpectedly end up toppling one of the real outsiders in this election... more
Last night’s TV debate between the main party leaders was unexpectedly combative and watchable. It also raises serious questions about the Liberal Democrats’ prospects... more
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