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Nick Clegg: I’d probably relish debating Farage

We’ll be seeing a lot of Nick Clegg this week. Today was his monthly press conference, tomorrow is Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions and on Thursday, there’s the return, and first birthday of, Call Clegg.

Today he faced journalists an hour after George Osborne’s speech on future spending cuts in which he appeared to relish the prospect of removing Housing Benefit from young people. Nick was keen to point out the difference in the Liberal Democrat approach from Osborne and Labour.

On the right, you have got a Conservative party now who are driven, it seems to me, by two very clear ideological

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