Nick Clegg
Nick Clegg is leader of the Liberal Democrats and MP for Sheffield Hallam. Clegg initially trained as a journalist before working as a development and trade expert in the EU. He was elected as MEP for the East Midlands in 1999, stood down in 2004, lectured at Sheffield and Cambridge universities, and was elected to the UK parliament in 2005.
Articles by Nick Clegg
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UK Politics
Action to salvage the people's trust
- 15 May 2009
Parliament must move quickly to reform the disgraced expenses arrangements or voters will never forgive MPs
UK Politics
Expenses destroying trust in MPs
- 09 April 2009
- 2 comments
The Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg argues that confidence in our politicians is at an all time low and it's time to entirely rethink MPs' expenses
UK Politics
Politics is broken
- 16 December 2008
- 10 comments
People in this country are governed by processes that feel alien to their lives; by the puerile and archaic pantomime that so often dictates the Commons; by a system that keeps power hoarded in Whitehall.
UK Politics
Clegg: My liberal vision
- 12 September 2008
- 2 comments
Ahead of his party's annual gathering in Bournemouth, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg sets out his vision for Britain including tax cuts for people on low and middle incomes and plans for job creation
Politics
Securing Britain's energy
- 21 May 2008
- 2 comments
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg warns Gordon Brown not to go ahead with a new generation of coal power plants, starting with Kingsnorth, and says our future must be low carbon
UK Politics
Allegiances are fluid after a decade of Labour
- 02 May 2008
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg hails his party's performance in the 1 May elections when they pushed Labour into third place
Politics
Only radical change will do
- 13 March 2008
- 8 comments
We need massive devolution of power to reverse the centralising excesses of Thatcher, Blair and Brown
Politics
A humane solution to immigration?
- 19 September 2007
- 3 comments
Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg explains his party's new policy on immigration saying he's not offering a blanket amnesty but an earned route to citizenship
