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LibLink: What Nick Clegg wrote on Mumsnet about shared parental leave – and he didn’t mince his words

By The Voice | Mon 27th October 2014 - 2:31 pm

Nick Clegg Glasgow 2014 by Liberal DemocratsLet’s bankrupt Britain’s businesses and, once we’re done, burn the buildings to the ground.

This is what you might have thought I’d said last week, if you saw some of the reaction to my plans to increase fathers’ rights when it comes to shared parental leave.

Nick Clegg was writing on Mumsnet at the weekend, dealing with some of the misleading and downright misogynistic claims made in the media about the scheme. As he made clear:

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NewsHound

Lynne Featherstone live webchat on Mumsnet today at 1pm

By NewsHound | Thu 20th June 2013 - 8:45 am

Spotted earlier this week on Twitter:

Listen in live, or catch up here later.

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Alex Foster

Biscuitgate proponents left with custard on face

By Alex Foster | Wed 28th October 2009 - 1:55 pm

Remember “Biscuitgate” – which Stephen reported on last week – the apparent inability of the Prime Minister to decide which sort of biscuit he liked?

Turns out there’s not a crumb of truth in it. Private Eye’s Adam MacQueen reports for First Post:

“Being more decisive would spare the Prime Minister needless embarrassment” declared the leader column of the Times, and even David Cameron weighed in at Prime Minister’s Questions: “Are we really going to spend another six months with a Prime Minister who cannot give a straight answer, who cannot pass his own legislation, and who sits in his bunker not even able to decide what sort of biscuits he wants to eat?”

Except, er, no one asked him. As Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts has now clarified in a posting on the website, the biscuit question proposed by various messageboard users was never put to Gordon Brown in the hour that he devoted to the interview.

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