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Nick Clegg
Deputy Prime Minister
Biography
Nick Clegg has been Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam since May 2005. On 11 May 2010 he became deputy leader of the coalition Conservative-Liberal Democrat Government.
Image: Nick Clegg PA
Also known as
Nicholas Clegg
Nick Clegg's connections
Interestingly enough...
Paul Marshall has been an adviser to Nick Clegg - source: timesonline.co.uk
Nick Clegg worked as an intern for Christopher Hitchens - source: Wikipedia
Nick Clegg made a comparison between Charlie Whelan and Lord Ashcroft - source: channel4.com/news
Nick Clegg made a comparison between Lord Ashcroft and Charlie Whelan - source: channel4.com/news
Nick Clegg is a fan of David Bowie - source: telegraph.co.uk
Nick Clegg was interviewed by Piers Morgan - source: guardian.co.uk
Nick Clegg has a great aunt who gave a gift to Josef Stalin - source: newstatesman.com
Gavin Rossdale went to school with Nick Clegg - source: telegraph.co.uk
Nick Clegg won a writing prize at the Financial Times - source: timesonline.co.uk
Nick Clegg is a fan of Prince - source: guardian.co.uk
CV
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- Clegg was announced as Liberal Democrat leader on 18 December 2007, succeeding Sir Menzies Campbell. - source: libdems.org.uk
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- The Roxy Music star is to advise the Liberal Democrats on how to reach out beyond Westminster. - source: telegraph.co.uk
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- The Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister worked for the Tory peer in Brussels from 1996-1999. - source: libdems.org.uk
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- Former foreign secretary and a friend of the Clegg family, Lord Carrington introduced a 29-year-old Clegg to Leon Brittan - who gave him his "breakthrough" job in Brussels. - source: timesonline.co.uk
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- In 2004 Clegg spent nine months at the firm G-plus, which then represented Royal Bank of Scotland. - source: timesonline.co.uk
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- Clegg worked for lobby firm GJW after university. One of the firm's clients was the state of Libya and it is reported one project was to "improve thr reputation" of dictator Colonel Gaddafi. Asked about this period of his career during the election campaign, Clegg said: 'Honestly, this is such bilge. Twenty years ago I spent nine months as a backroom researcher for a consultancy in London." - source: dailymail.co.uk
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- Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg became deputy prime minister in the Conservative-Liberal coalition government on 11 May 2010. - source: channel4.com/news
Nick Clegg on the web
Education
- Clegg studied social anthropology at Robinson College, Cambridge, in the mid-1980s. - source: robinson.cam.ac.uk
- Mr Clegg was educated at Westminster, one of the country's top public schools. As an exchange student in Munich, aged 16, he and a friend were arrested for setting fire to a collection of rare cacti belonging to a professor. The incident appeared on the front page of the local newspaper in Munich. He was given community service and had to spend the summer digging gardens. - source: news.bbc.co.uk
Stories
View all stories (9)Has Nick Clegg really got the X-Factor?
Rory Bremner examines Cleggmania
A general election campaign "touched with the wand of the TV reality show"? How Nick Clegg changed politics - comment from Rory Bremner.
Who Knows Who: the coalition cabinet
The "new politics" or Oxford reunion?
They are not all Oxford chums, millionaires and the Notting Hill set, but quite a large slice are. Who Knows Who examines the old rivals and new faces in the Con-Lib cabinet.
Clegg's celebs: the Lib Dem star supporters
Election 2010: the celebrity backers
The stars are shining for Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats - with the party publishing an Obama-style list of high-profile backers. Who Knows Who takes a look.
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