LDVideo: Nick Clegg on House of Lords reform, Budget taxes and Michael Brown

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LDVideo: Nick Clegg on House of Lords reform, Budget taxes and Michael Brown

By Stephen Tall | Mon 23rd April 2012 - 8:05 am

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Nick Clegg faced Andrew Neil on the Sunday Politics, and set out his views on a range of issues — including the row over some Tory MPs’ wish to ditch their Coalition Agreement pledge on Lords reform, George Osborne’s controversial budget, Cornish Lib Dems’ ‘pasty tax’-opposing leaflet, and that Michael Brown donation. Here’s the full 15-minute interview:

(Available on the BBC website here.)

* Stephen was Editor (and Co-Editor) of Liberal Democrat Voice from 2007 to 2015, and writes at The Collected Stephen Tall.

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One Comment

Dave Page 23rd Apr '12 - 2:48pm

I don’t think Nick is making himself popular with Cornwall’s Lib Dems – no matter how wrong they are on the so-called “Pasty Tax”!

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