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Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | yesterday
Commenting on the election of Tavish Scott as the new Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg said: "I am delighted that Tavish Scott has been chosen as the new Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats. "He will bring energy and enthusiasm to the role, taking the fight to the SNP and Labour right across Scotland. "The Liberal Democrats are the only party who represent...
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Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
The Liberal Democrats have for a long time called for a windfall tax, and on Sunday, a YouGov poll for The Observer newspaper of just over 2,000 people found that 67% now support a windfall tax. Nick Clegg said recently: “When the winter comes, price rises will hit the elderly and the vulnerable hardest. The [...]
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Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
As we reach the August bank holiday the news explodes across the political scene that the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has chosen this time of year, and this extraordinary economic climate, to switch allegiance. It truly is the height of the silly season. Clegg has defected from Ocado to Sainsbury’s. Janet Street Porter, for the [...]
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Dan Hassett (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
We all know that the Lib Dems struggle to set coherent policies. The latest example is Nick Clegg's statement on energy policy, enthusiastically supported by the Lib Dem Prosepective Parliamentary Candidate for Folkestone and Hythe. Apparently, a Lib Dem government (don't laugh too loudly) would strive for "UK energy independence." I'm intrigued as to how they intend to achieve that. A glance around...
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Liberal Burblings (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
Janet Street-Porter has a go at Nick Clegg in the Independent: Nick reveals that his wife is "gravitating towards Sainsbury's from Ocado" in order to save money. WAKE UP LOVE! Haven't the Cleggs heard that Netto, Aldi and Lidl are the shopping destinations of thousands of voters who can't even afford Sainsbury's, let alone Waitrose? Nick Clegg seems have started something. The Telegraph reckons
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
The fishing industry needs to be freed up from top-down and bureaucratic constraints if it is to have a sustainable future, said Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg.
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Liberal England (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
I am probably the last person entitled to complain, but I can't help noticing that Nick Clegg is given to drawing badly outdated comic parallels. On Friday he said: "Charlie Chaplin could do a better job running the Home Office than this Labour Government." And on Saturday it was: "Frankly the Keystone Cops would do a better job running the Home Office and keeping our data safe than this government,...
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Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
Nick Clegg and Andrew De Freitas Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Great Grimsby Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg warned that Britain’s energy security is under severe threat as a result of the Government’s disintegrating energy policy, which will lead to an ever-increasing dependence on vulnerable foreign energy supplies. The Grimsby Telegraph have reported today on a major new campaign [...]...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
IT IS the great Ocado debate. When Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg with his annual politician's salary of £61000 and marriage to a successful lawyer announced he was giving up his weekly grocery deliveries from online supermarket Ocado it must have resonated with families across the country.
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If Sam Tarran Was In Charge (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
Yesterday , it was Nick Clegg wanting to put his green conscience and his fantasies before keeping Britain's lights on. Today , it's those "leading scientists" again. Despite the obvious need for Britain to build new coal power plants (as well as dismantle the EU's confining regulatory regime surrounding them), "the heads of three influential groups, representing more than 2 million members, have...
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
He has two expensive homes, a £61,000-a-year job, generous five-figure expenses and a wife who earns good money as a leading lawyer. So eyebrows were raised on Friday when Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg claimed he was latest victim of the credit crunch.
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Daily Mail on Sunday (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
He has two expensive homes, a £61,000-a-year job, generous five-figure expenses and a wife who earns good money as a leading lawyer. So eyebrows were raised on Friday when Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg claimed he was latest victim of the credit crunch.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
Nick Clegg has declared that he is feeling "our" financial pain. The leader of the Liberal Democrats explains that he and his wife Miriam are mortgaged "up to the gills", and vouchsafes that Miriam is gravitating away from Ocado and towards Sainsbury's, "just on price".
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
He has two expensive homes, a £61,000-a-year job, generous five-figure expenses and a wife who earns good money as a leading lawyer. So eyebrows were raised on Friday when Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg claimed he was latest victim of the credit crunch.
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Daily Mail on Sunday (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
He has two expensive homes, a £61,000-a-year job, generous five-figure expenses and a wife who earns good money as a leading lawyer. So eyebrows were raised on Friday when Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg claimed he was latest victim of the credit crunch.