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Nick and Miriam join Lorraine to talk about inspiring women and school meals – and grate cheese

By Caron Lindsay | Thu 6th November 2014 - 11:48 am

Nick Clegg got cheesy yesterday morning on ITV’s Lorraine show. He was helping their chef make ragu for going on bonfire baked potatoes and was entrusted with chopping onion, carrot and celery and grating cheese which he seemed to carry out with reasonable competence. My mind boggled a bit when he asked which bit of the grater he should use. It was for going on top of a baked potato. It didm’t really matter.

Anyway, he took the opportunity to talk about the successful introduction of his school meals policy. This was not a serious political interview. It was never going to be, but it is quite nice to see well-informed discussion of the issues in an informal way. I think Nick should be doing much more of these things. You can watch him here.

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Posted in News | Also tagged itv, media, miriam gonzalez durantez and nick clegg | 25 Comments

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