Nick Clegg

Clegg takes wrong turn on tax

27 January 2012 | Ian Mulheirn

The deputy prime minister’s plan to raise personal allowances is a very expensive way to help the ‘squeezed middle’. There must be a better approach Read more

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Clegg’s capitalism: knowingly oversold?

18 January 2012 | Dan Corry

The Deputy Prime Minister’s plans to encourage more John Lewis style companies will only get us so far. He needs to be more radical and consider greater worker participation within firms Read more

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An offer they can’t refuse?

9 December 2011 | Sam Simms

The government is proposing a deal with England’s cities that will devolve more powers but, in return, local authorities will need to show true leadership and help build an effective consensus Read more

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The stakes are high

30 September 2011 | Philip Johnston

David Cameron will be facing down his critics in Manchester and holding firmly on to the political centre ground Read more

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Clegg speech: no such thing as a free summer school

21 September 2011 | Conor Ryan

Nick Clegg’s summer school idea is neither new nor costed. In all likelihood it will mean a raid on the pupil premium funding pot   Read more

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A pointless cull of MPs

14 September 2011 | Conor Ryan

Reducing the number of Westminster MPs by 50 is a waste of time and money, and will not produce the gains in seats expected by the Tories Read more

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What happened to collective responsibility?

5 June 2011 | Dan Corry

It seems that Blairite ‘sofa government’ has been transformed into coalition ‘telephone government’, with policy decisions made during Sunday night calls between David Cameron and Nick Clegg. Surely, there’s a better way Read more

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Flight of fancy, by Mike Thatcher

23 September 2010 | Mike Thatcher

It might not have got the pulses racing at the Liberal Democrats conference in Liverpool but it has certainly excited the town hall cognoscenti. Read more...

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Turning up the noise, by Judy Hirst

17 June 2010 | Judy Hirst

The ‘emergency Budget’ is almost upon us. It’s going to be a game of two halves. On the one hand, with the Office for Budget Responsibility acting as fiscal referee, there’s Cameron’s promise of pain, and yet more pain – the unavoidable penalty for all those foul-ups under the old management. Read more...

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Talking the talk, by Mike Thatcher

10 June 2010 | Mike Thatcher

As former Swedish prime minister Göran Persson told the annual CIPFA conference in Harrogate this week, it’s easy to get elected; what’s difficult is to get re-elected. Read more...

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