Nick Clegg MP

Nick Clegg said the Government “clearly” did not think it was the right decision to send lethal assistance to Syria at the moment. “We are already providing assistance to the opposition. We need to do that. The balance we’re trying to st... Continue to article

  Nick Clegg said the international community would leave president Assad in "absolutely no doubt" that he has no alternative but to enter into a political peace process. "We of course will work with president Obama and it will be the... Continue to article

Nick Clegg said Government proposals to relax childcare regulations would not have helped bring down costs. "We looked at this idea that we should ask people in nurseries across the country to look after more little toddlers than they do... Continue to article

Nick Clegg said the Government could take worthwhile steps to combat unwanted behaviour over lobbying. "Westminster as a whole needs top to toe reform. We’re not going to change anything overnight and no single measure will stop any poli... Continue to article

Baroness Kramer said the Liberal Democrats supported Labour’s call for an end to universal winter fuel payments for pensioners, but called on Ed Balls to set out a more thorough economic plan. “We’ve particularly said that we ought to lo... Continue to article

Peter Hain criticised the Labour leadership’s proposal to remove the winter fuel allowance from the wealthiest pensioners. “Once you dismantle universal benefits like the winter fuel allowance – and there’s not many of them left any more... Continue to article

Lord West accused Nick Clegg of failing to think through the security implications of not implementing the ‘snooper’s charter’. “There was no doubt about it – it was intended to be in the Queen’s Speech fully and it was withdrawn, I’m af... Continue to article

Boris Johnson said Nick Clegg needed to “listen to the arguments” in favour of enhancing security services’ access to information on people’s communications after the Deputy Prime Minister torpedoed the Communications Data Bill. “I think... Continue to article

Nick Clegg accused people calling for the so-called snooper’s charter to be revived in the wake of last week’s terrorist attack of “disengaging from the detail”. “I think the issue of storing the website addresses that everybody visits i... Continue to article

Sadiq Khan said the Lib Dems' objections to the Snoopers' Charter were reasonable but that Labour would support a "proportionate" version of the Bill. "I want to commend the way David Cameron, Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Boris Johnson ha... Continue to article

Vince Cable hinted at a future bid for the leadership of the Liberal Democrats, admitting he could “never” rule out running for the top job. However the Business Secretary firmly rejected the suggestion from Education Secretary Michael G... Continue to article

David Davis said too many Conservative figures were under-rating Ed Miliband’s leadership credentials. “My instinct is, he's going to be cleverer than we think and we'd be very unwise to take him less than seriously. I want us to win the... Continue to article

Phillip Hollobone said that the Prime Minister should stand up for his backbenchers in calling for a bill on an EU referendum even if it risked ending the Coalition. “He has to say to Nick Clegg: ‘the Conservatives make up the majority o... Continue to article

Nick Clegg said he continued to have reservations about increasing the maximum legal ratio of children to childminders. “When we as a government consulted on changing the number of little toddlers that each adult can look after, the resp... Continue to article