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Liberal England (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Adam Sherwin writes in The Times: Guests invited to Nick Clegg’s home for dinner find out pretty quickly whether or not they are in the good books of Miriam González Durántez, his Spanish wife. “I love cooking,” declares the glamorous highflying lawyer, who is expecting the couple’s third child in the new year. “But I have a very emotional attitude towards it. If I like somebody I cook for them. But...
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Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg has urged the Prime Minister to take steps to remove the senior banking executives who were involved in the excessive risk-taking which contributing to the current crisis. In a letter to Gordon Brown today, Nick Clegg proposes that board members of banks should be barred from taking bonuses, to stop them [...]
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Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Earlier today I received an e mail about the current banking situation from Nick Clegg, the Liberal democrat leader, which some of the readers may find interesting. The letter said: When a ship is sinking, we must send out the lifeboats, not argue about who steered the ship into the iceberg. At Prime Minister’s Question Time yesterday, [...]
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Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
It might have made Aaron’s daily news round-up, but Nick Clegg’s comments in today’s Indy exemplify just about everything I find really irritating about opposition politicians… State intervention is needed in some areas. We need immediate action to stop unjustified repossessions of homes and business assets. Propped up by taxpayers’ money, the banks must realise that [...]
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Here is a spokesman-by-spokesman guide to the members of Nick Clegg's front bench team.
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Mike Power's 'Not A Blog' (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Nick Clegg: It would be madness to raise taxes now Liberal Democrats are committed to lowering taxes for those who need help while raising them for the rich by closing the loopholes that benefit the wealthy. This is what families want and need: a simple, fair tax system that cripples no one. Some say our plans are no longer possible given the crisis. They are wrong – tax cuts are not just possible,...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Yesterday's rescue of Britain's banks is arguably the most ambitious act of economic intervention by a post-war government. The magnitude of the rescue package is staggering: the £50 billion of capital plus guarantees of £250 billion equate to more than 20 per cent of UK gross domestic product flowing into banks which seem to soak it up like blotting paper.
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Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg has called for all political parties to support the Government’s banking rescue package on what he described as a “day of reckoning for the British economy”. Speaking shortly after Alistair Darling announced the £50bn package, Mr Clegg described a “fundamental shift in the way we view banks” and called for the [...]
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Colin Ross News Stories (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg has announced changes to his shadow cabinet team to reflect the new Government structure.
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Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
On Monday night, Lib Dem Voice e-mailed party members signed up to our Forum asking a number of questions about the current state of British politics, including the reshuffle. On Tuesday morning Nick Clegg decided to spike our guns by announcing a mini-reshuffle of the Lib Dem shadow cabinet. The survey’s still live for those [...]
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Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg has called for all political parties to support the Government’s banking rescue package on what he described as a “day of reckoning for the British economy”. Speaking shortly after Alistair Darling announced the £50bn package, Mr Clegg described a “fundamental shift in the way we view banks” and called for the obligations banks have to the public to change for good....
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
THE Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, reshuffled his front-bench team yesterday.
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Liberal Burblings (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Order of the brown nose to be sent in a plain brown envelope to Paul Walter, 9 Acacia Avenue...... Well done to Nick Clegg for bringing back the members of the shadow cabinet who voted for the referendum on the EU Treaty. This is an excellent act of leadership....letting bygones be bygones. All the MPs involved are excellent liberals and I am glad they are back in the shadow cabinet. At the
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, has awarded frontbench roles to two rebel MPs in a mini-reshuffle responding to Gordon Brown's reorganisation of the government
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Boulton & Co. (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Nick Clegg has also reshuffled his frontbench team. Jobs go to three MPs who quit the frontbenches earlier this year in order to be able to vote in favour of a referendum on the EU's Lisbon Treaty, after Mr Clegg ordered them to abstain. Alistair Carmichael returns to the Northern Ireland and Scotland brief which he resigned in March. Former countryside spokesman Tim Farron takes on the environment,...
