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Clegg profiles across the pond

By NewsHound | Mon 26th April 2010 - 12:55 pm

As a sign of our new found success, it’s intriguing that some American blogs are starting to talk about Nick Clegg as well.

As an example, here’s the Daily Beast:

For good or for ill, Clegg is certainly different. Part of his distinctiveness stems from his family background. His mother is Dutch, his father half-Russian, a combination that led the reliably right-wing Daily Mail to describe him as “by blood the least British leader of a British political party.” His paternal grandmother, an aristocrat, fled Russia at the time of the revolution.

Clegg speaks five languages and once worked for the European

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