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Caron Lindsay

Nick Clegg joins Board of Social Mobility Foundation

By Caron Lindsay | Sat 5th September 2015 - 1:45 pm

Way back in 1998, Nick Clegg walked into a dingy room in Leicester to be interviewed as a potential European candidate for the East Midlands. I have to say I was not particularly optimistic about this. His CV was the most boring thing I had ever read that wasn’t a phone book. That’s not to decry his illustrious career to date, working at a high level in the European Commission and a brief stint as a journalist in New York. It just didn’t inspire.

However, he came in that night and blew us all away with his sheer passion for breaking down barriers for people from disadvantaged backgrounds. This has been the driving force of his political career and why in government he drove the Pupil Premium and nursery education for so many disadvantaged 2 year olds.

It’s no surprise, then that he’s joined the board of the Social Mobility Foundation, a charity that helps young people from disadvantaged backgrounds into universities and into professions like the law, medicine and business.  He joins the likes of former Labour Cabinet Minister Hazel Blears and former Chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission Trevor Phillips on the Board.

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