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Nick Clegg: good news, bad news
First, the good news for Nick Clegg, courtesy of page 17 of today’s The Times. Clegg’s line on last week’s summit failure is that he agreed the initial negotiating position with David Cameron, but Cameron then messed up in the the talks themselves (abetted by some of the Treasury’s civil servants also messing up, if [...]
Labour’s rapidly warming official attitude towards the Liberal Democrats
Over on the Spectator website, Peter Hoskin neatly summarises the latest warming in the Labour Party’s official attitude towards the Liberal Democrats: Remember when MiliE described them as a ‘disgrace to the traditions of liberalism’? Since then he has said that, actually, he’d work with the Lib Dems so long as they ditched Clegg; that he’d work [...]
Nick Clegg on why he was absent from the Euro statement
In case you missed it on last night’s news here is Nick Clegg explaining his view on the Euro summit and why he wasn’t in the Commons for David Cameron’s statement: And from the weekend, here are the highlights of Nick Clegg’s interview with Andrew Marr, followed by my own views. BONUS FEATURE: A huge [...]
+++ News from tonight’s Federal Executive
At tonight’s meeting of the Liberal Democrat Federal Executive, Nick Clegg explained his position on the Euro summit, the veto and his decision not to appear in the Commons for today’s debate. There was a detailed discussion and every FE member backed Nick Clegg’s actions. (For my take on the Euro summit, see It’s the [...]
It’s nice to get good messages asking me to go and help in by-elections, but…
… it’s distinctly odd that over the last 48 hours I’ve had a sensible number of high quality messages asking me to go and help in either the Kingston double council by-election or the Feltham and Heston Parliamentary by-election, but the party’s official communication channels online are just about completely silent as far as Europe [...]
Fashion industry faces intern crackdown
Good to see Nick Clegg’s push to sort out internships reaching another industry. After public relations, now it is the turn of the fashion industry to face the spotlight, as Vogue reports: HMRC has warned fashion labels against exploiting their interns and treating them as employees – but without pay. The organisation sent cautionary letters to 102 [...]
Europe: what Liberal Democrats have been saying today
Nick Clegg: "I have said for months that it would be best to avoid arcane debates about treaty change altogether and if we had to proceed down that road, it would be best to do so in a way that did not create divisions in Europe".
Lib Dem MEP: British demands were “reasonable”
It’s not exactly a huge surprise that Lib Dem MEP Chris Davies, frequently the iconclast* and always the strong pro-European, is disagreeing with Nick Clegg’s views over Europe today. But that makes fellow Lib Dem MEP Sarah Ludford’s view all the more significant: Asked to comment on reports that Nick Clegg was “entirely signed-up” to [...]
Nick Clegg’s verdict on events in Europe
Here is Nick Clegg’s statement on the dramatic events overnight in Europe: I regret that last night it proved to be impossible to find a way forward as a group of 27 on European treaty change. I have said for months that it would be best to avoid arcane debates about treaty change altogether and [...]
