Nick Clegg
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‘Blindfold Brexit’ is here — the case for a second vote is now irrefutable
Picture the following scene. Before the year is out, Brussels will play host to the final round of Brexit negotiations. Talks drag on into the night, tempers fray and speculation floods the Twittersphere. At long last, in the early hours, Theresa May emerges. She holds a hastily assembled press conference and → Read More
Clegg Said Brexit Meant Leaving Single Market
It really is Single Market Groundhog Day today. Guido can’t quite believe we are still having this argument two years on from the referendum, but it falls upon us once again to point out that, during the referendum, Nick Clegg was clear that Brexit meant leaving the single market. As was David Miliband. Their attempt … → Read More
Nick Clegg: We risk losing control of Ireland if we're not careful
While Brexiters wanted to 'take back control', Theresa May must make sure not to derail years of peace in Ireland → Read More
Nick Clegg: Artificial Intelligence is an opportunity, not a threat
Something extraordinary happened when Lee Sedol, 18-times world champion of the board game Go, came up against Deepmind’s AlphaGo program last year. That m → Read More
Nick Clegg: MPs deserve a vote on the final plan for Brexit
As the Government peppers Parliament with “concesssions” in its attempt to push the EU Withdrawal Bill onto the Statute Book, MPs should not be taken in. B → Read More
Nick Clegg: There is one question that will hang over Westminster sexual scandal
"The Rotten Parliament" (Daily Telegraph). "The Great Shaming of Parliament" (The Economist). "House of Ill Repute" (The Guardian). These excoriating newsp → Read More
The Brexit spell is lifting: MPs are finally standing against it
For too long, Brexit has cast a spell over our country which no one dared to break. It seemed as though forces beyond our control were remorselessly pullin → Read More
How Brexit Could Lead To EU Reforms That Would Allow Us A Way Back In
At the English Channel's narrowest point, just over eighteen nautical miles separate Shakespeare Beach in Kent from Cap Gris Nez, and on a clear day you ... → Read More
Nick Clegg: The rise in opioid deaths is an indictment of our blinkered drugs policy
Last year, nearly 90 people a week in the UK died as a result of drug use - the highest number on record. More than 60 per cent of these deaths involved an → Read More
Nick Clegg: We were the world's leaders in democracy. Now it's Germany
The more you lose your grip, the more you hold on to what you know. It is a sure sign that an institution is in steady decline when it fixates on past glor → Read More
The British people were promised an easy Brexit, not a nightmarishly complex one
It was all very British: understated, polite, yet uncompromising. “Thank you for all you’ve done for us, dear, but I really think it’s time we move on. I k → Read More
Nick Clegg: Get used to cross-party cooperation
No wonder the pollsters – or at least most of them – got it all wrong. Never before has there been so much topsy-turvy cross-dressing in British politics. → Read More
Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have colluded in a conspiracy of silence over Brexit. I'll tell you the truth
With just three days left before voters go the polls, let’s remember why this general election was called in the first place. It’s seven long weeks since Theresa May declared that the challenges of Brexit meant she had no alternative but to call a snap election. Indeed, just last week she insisted that Brexit is “the one, fundamental, defining issue” of the entire campaign. → Read More
Piers Wounds Clegg
Tom Watson on Boris Johnson: “Boris Johnson is a cack-handed, cheese-headed fopdoodle, with a talent for slummocking about, who would do less damage to Britain’s reputation in the world if Theresa May sacked him as Foreign Secretary and replaced him with a souvenir paperweight.” → Read More
The EU is facing a liberal insurgence – now is not the time for Britain to leave
It was round the family dinner table, as so often, that the reality began to emerge. I was visiting my numerous aunts, uncles and cousins in the Netherlands last December, a few days before Christmas, and one of my cousins had invited the whole clan over for supper. → Read More
Nick Clegg: what you will wake up to if we vote to Leave...
Are you still undecided? Are you someone who – pummelled by weeks of claim and counter-claim – has been left exhausted and annoyed? Have you been looking f → Read More
When it comes to the EU, we shouldn't kid ourselves: all forms of out are as bad as each other
Those who want Britain to leave the EU often cite Norway, Switzerland, Turkey and even Iceland as models for a utopian future where we are free from the suffocating strictures of the European club. But what do these countries have in common? They all abide by the EU’s rules and regulations, but with no way of influencing them. → Read More
Our Liberal Political Family Has Lost One of Its Most Admired Advocates
It was no surprise when Charles said, after being challenged about his loyalties after the 2010 election: "I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket." I am just devastated that it has happened so soon. Our liberal political family has lost one of its most admired advocates. British politics has lost one of its best storytellers. This House has lost one… → Read More
The Liberal Democrats Will Always Put the Good of the Country First and Provide Stability and Fairness
Everybody knows that no one is going to win this election outright, so what really matters is who David Cameron or Ed Miliband have by their side in Government. Ask yourself this: Do you want Nigel Farage walking through the door of No 10? Do you want Alex Salmond sat at the cabinet table? Or do you want me and the Liberal Democrats? We will always put the good of the country first and provide… → Read More
Nick Clegg: We should to go to war on drugs, not on addicts
Britain has fought the “war on drugs” for the best part of 50 years. But with 2,000 people dying each year and the Mr Bigs of the drug world getting richer, it is clear we are not winning. Instead of looking at evidence-based solutions successive government’s have ratcheted up the rhetoric – talking tough but failing to tackle the problem. → Read More