ENG: Nicholas William Peter Clegg (born 7 January 1967) is the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the coalition Cameron Ministry, Lord President of the Council and leader of the Liberal Democrats.
Clegg's first major elected position was as a MEP for the East Midlands from 1999 to 2004. He was elected Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam in the 2005 general election and became the Liberal Democrats' Home Affairs spokesperson in 2006. Clegg defeated Chris Huhne in the party's 2007 leadership election. As well as his parliamentary roles, Clegg has contributed to many pamphlets and books on political issues.
Clegg was educated at Caldicott School in Buckinghamshire and Westminster School in London, followed by Robinson College at the University of Cambridge, where he ...
Nick Clegg and his wife Miriam Gonzalez Durantez in Bournemouth for the Liberal Democrats Autumn Conference. Sept 19, 2009. (Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA) , positive
Once more following in David Cameron's footsteps, Nick Clegg is delivering tonight's Hugo Young memorial lecture. A preview of his speech appears in today's Guardian, in which the Lib Dem leader suggests that increasing social mobility, not achieving income equality, should be the ultimate goal of progressives.
He writes:Social mobility is what characterises a fair society, rather than a particular level of income equality. Inequalities become injustices when they are fixed; passed on, generation to generation. That's when societies become closed, stratified and ...
... scrap Queen's Speech
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has hit the headlines today after issuing a call for this week's Queen's Speech to be scrapped.
Clegg has written an article in The Independent today dismissing the event as a ‘waste of everyone's time'. He suggests that the speech is replaced by an emergency programme of reform designed to ‘clean up politics once and for all'.The speech, which takes place on Wednesday, will set out plans to boost parents' and patients' rights, tackle knife crime, improve social care for the elderly and trim bankers' bonuses.Mandate ...
19/01/2009
The Union flag should be proudly stamped on all the goods made in this country.That was the "local logo" call made by Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg yesterday as he became the latest big hitter to back the Mirror's Buy British campaign.He got behind our call for families to do their bit to protect UK companies and save jobs at the same time by saying: "As you have reminded us, economic recovery starts at home."Consumers should be proud to Buy British - and buy local - particularly at a time of recession."But Clegg reckons there should be more help for shoppers, with a logo to help ...
Clegg in jobs battle with Labour’s anti-business Town Hall Today Nick Clegg, Liberal Democrat Sheffield Hallam MP, has written to the Leader of Sheffield City Council to urge the Labour run Authority to drop their anti-business policies, which could cost the City nearly 2,000 jobs. Recent weeks have seen the leadership of the Council criticised for: - a lukewarm reception to the proposal by [...]
Liberal Democrats bringing crime down in South Yorkshire – Nick Clegg This week’s Queen Speech will take further action to tackle anti-social behaviour in South Yorkshire. The news comes as figures reveal that the number of incidents of anti-social behaviour in South Yorkshire fell from 127,707 in 2009/10 to 106,213 in 2011/12. A decrease of 16.8% since the Coalition Government came to power thanks to measures supported [...]
DPM on the doorstep in Lodge Moor Sheffield Hallam MP and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg took to the doorstep yesterday evening in Lodge Moor to support Cliff Woodcraft, the Liberal Democrat candidate in the Fulwood Ward by-election. The by-election is on Thursday May 2nd and is in Nick Clegg’s Sheffield Hallam consistency. It was caused by the sad death of local [...]
Liberal Democrats win stunning Fulwood by-election victory Cliff Woodcraft has been elected as the new Liberal Democrat councillor for Fulwood Ward after an important Sheffield City Council by-election yesterday. The Liberal Democrats achieved a 4.35% swing from Labour and increased their majority from 813 to 1,528. The full result was: Party Name Vote % +/- from 2012 Labour Blake, Olivia 1035 19.5% [...]