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Caron Lindsay

Nick Clegg tells Wales: Liberal Democrat councillors create jobs and fight to protect services

By Caron Lindsay | Mon 22nd April 2013 - 3:58 pm

Nick Clegg’s speech to the Welsh Liberal Democrat conference has been widely covered. The Guardian led on his push for greater diversity in the Party and mentioned his defence of the Government’s economic policy, missing out the massive section on how the Liberal Democrats are delivering fairness in many areas across Government. Why would they do that, I wonder?

The BBC led on Nick’s assertion that he would not let the Government lurch to the right.

Having read the whole speech, I think there’s a part that has so far not made the headlines. Nick has spent a great deal of …

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