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But it may be a mistake to think of Mr Clegg merely as a force for realigning Britain's existing party landscape.

That Mr Clegg himself is thought privately to support some of these market reforms in the public sector only adds to the sense of chaos.

And Nick Clegg tried to reassure the public that this was no sell-out.

Downing Street said Cameron had contacted Clegg . "This was a coalition position. This was an agreed position, " Cameron emphasised.

She did, she says, but it was Mr. Clegg, to whom she had previously barely given a thought.

If Britain kept electing coalitions, Mr Clegg mused, future manifestos might have to signal which pledges are more cherished than others.

In fact, the idea of Mr Clegg as a map re-drawer is part of what makes some Lib Dems sceptical about him.

One questioner referred to the occasion when Cameron was asked what his favourite political joke was and replied "Nick Clegg" .

True, at the start of his leader's speech in Birmingham, Mr Clegg paid mawkish tribute to his party's "grace under fire" .

Mr. Clegg, while positioning himself as the new face of politics, has spent most of his career as a politician.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and his wife Miriam also sent their best wishes.

Before his single term as an MEP Mr Clegg worked at the European Commission (for a British Conservative EU commission, Sir Leon Brittan).

But it is possible that Mr Clegg could exercise power of sorts without it.

Nick Clegg is just a product of this devastating legacy.

In an event alongside Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Cameron will say the plans will allow the public to hold government to account.

New fathers will be given up to ten months of paid paternity leave under plans outlined by British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

Should a deal to repatriate powers become possible, Nick Clegg's party would be mad to stand in its way (and Mr Clegg knows it).

Across the Arab world, dictators battle their own people; at home, attitudes towards Cameron and Clegg alternate between apathy and outrage.

The Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg said Mr Brown's announcement could be important for a smooth transition towards a new government.

Then there is the question of how Mr Clegg's party will react to the referendum result.

Mr Clegg's leadership, which had looked vulnerable, is safe.

Mr Clegg appears to have shelved such aspirations in making the compromises needed to sustain a coalition with the Conservatives.

Mr Clegg and Mr Cameron do share an analysis of the British state as over-centralised and bureaucratic.

Come the next general election, the Clegg camp believes that Labour will have less economic credibility than the coalition.

But as the Tories want immediate cuts, it is hard to see how they could win Mr Clegg's support for their planned budget this summer.

"I saw it in my local newsagents, " said Nick Clegg, "and I laughed out loud immediately"

Mr Clegg has made the Lib Dems more liberal, or at least more realistic, in economic matters.

Among Tory fans, in contrast, Mr Clegg is hailed as a man whose destiny is to re-draw the political map on the centre-right.

"On Monday, you probably won't feel full when you eat, since the brain isn't getting the signals, " says researcher Deborah Clegg.

Instead all the buzz since the first television debate has been about the surge of the Liberal Democrats led by Nick Clegg.

Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, promises "change that works for you" .

Liberal Democrat leader (now Deputy Prime Minister) Nick Clegg committed his party to an inquiry during the election campaign.

Ian Clegg was horrified to discover faeces and sanitary towels dumped in his fields when he went to tend to his livestock.

Polls show support for the Liberal Democrats may be soft. Many voters are still waiting to make up their minds about Mr. Clegg.

In his grandpa jeans, Nick Clegg looks like a bandy-legged postman who has just got the sack.

This "differentiation" began when Mr Clegg seized an unmissable chance to rough up the Tories over a botched health reform.

With backing from British Prime Minister David Cameron, Clegg condemned "Edwardian" attitudes to childcare and traditional family roles.

Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg have struggled to marginalise their parties' loonier fringes, and their alliance may assist them in that task.

The complaint that Mr Clegg ought by now to have led his followers to the sunny polling uplands of the mid-20s is over-harsh.

Hence Mr Clegg's fierce assault on Labour in his speech, urging voters: "never, ever trust Labour with our economy again. "

They mean no harm, any more than Americans mean any harm when they call Clegg the Liberal Democratic leader, as sometimes happens.

In the case of Nick Clegg, leader of Britain's Liberal Democrats, local links go back further.

Nick Clegg, Britain's deputy prime minister, recently launched a crusade to ban them, arguing that they favour the wealthy and privileged.

"I've arrived at the conclusion that the Speaker must go, " Nick Clegg, Liberal Democrats' leader said yesterday.

A customer, a bearded former social worker and fan of Old Labour, has taken a shine to "young Mr Clegg and his breath of fresh air" .

The deal, reached after days of tortuous haggling, gives Mr Clegg's party five seats at the cabinet table and several junior ministers.

But does Mr Clegg really have the leverage to extract electoral reform from one of the two big parties?

Mr Clegg's initial strategy of "owning" everything the coalition does is giving way to a determination to highlight areas of disagreement.

Nick Clegg, the party's leader and the deputy prime minister, is different, and his followers know it.

Yesterday, he held talks in Downing Street with senior colleagues and held private talks with Mr Clegg at the Foreign Office.

Mr Clegg pointedly offset the conference's Tory-bashing with a speech on September 21st that targeted Labour.

Even aside from PR, is there enough common ground for a Cameron-Clegg coalition?

And those areas where he was willing to accomodate Clegg & Co: lower taxes for low income earners, and reforming the electoral system.

During the Boonta Eve Classic, Sebulba ignited Clegg Holdfast's engines, sending him crashing into the desert flats.

On November 26th Mr Clegg was due to unveil an avowedly interventionist scheme to subsidise the wages of teenagers hired by private firms.

Nick Clegg, whose Liberal Democrats were never friends of the Murdoch press, has won a respite after a tough year.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, the new boy on the block, proved himself an attractive, articulate debater.

AS GORDON BROWN left Downing Street on May 11th to make way for David Cameron and Nick Clegg, there was talk of legacies.

But neither Mr Cameron nor Mr Clegg can easily announce policies that drip with the red blood of partisan conflict.

Mr. Cameron spoke Wednesday alongside coalition partner and new Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

At Birmingham, the mood of calm extended to both grassroots Lib Dems and the sleeker, suits-and-smartphones crowd around Mr Clegg.

Mr Clegg's vision of the Lib Dems as a party of the centre often looked remote.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg met with Mr. Brown, even as his party negotiated with the Conservatives.

So Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg have done something very big indeed.

As with New Labour, the Lib Dems are lead by a "young and dynamic leader" - Mr Nick Clegg.

That said, Mr Clegg's enthusiasm for the European Union will apply an important brake on Tory hostility.

The prime minister's departure may be the price of Mr Clegg's support for Labour.

In private, Mr Clegg and his inner circle cling to reason as closely as in public.

Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, went down particularly well in Mexico, where he addressed the Congress in fluent Spanish.

Angry ex-Lib Dems wanted redder meat: proof that Mr Clegg was stopping wicked Tories from doing wicked things.

Mr Clegg has duly started flirting with what his team calls "positive differentiation" .

Mr. Cameron had to shift course, as Mr. Clegg had deftly swiped his role as Britain's change agent.

CLEGG: Shall I tell you how we pay for it?

Before bed each night in Birmingham, one senior Clegg aide checked ten-year government bond yields.

Clegg, who was relatively unknown before the race, gained a sizable following during Britain's first-ever televised debates.

NICK CLEGG confronts Gordon Brown and David Cameron on prime-time television, as British politics finally enters the 20th century.

Clegg's speech on the 17th also strongly praised the efforts before Haman. "Daily Mail" commented that Craig's version of "go further. "

If Labour has the most seats, Mr. Clegg could demand, for instance, that Mr. Brown step aside as party leader in exchange for support.

Clegg fell into line, describing Britain's demands as "modest and reasonable" .

The UK Independence Party's election poster urged voters to "sod" Mr Brown, Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg.

Mr Clegg and Mr Cameron plan to fix the current parliamentary term (and future ones) at five years.

In this vision, Clegg's sweet smile makes it easier for Cameron to drop the Rohypnol into our drinks.

Tottenham MP David Lammy and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg inspect the damage caused to businesses in Tottenham on Aug.

Clegg, the deputy prime minister, affected to walk away from the lectern, while Cameron jokingly cried out: "Come back! "

He has more obviously in common with the similarly 40-ish, six-foot-tall leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg.

Loyal, ideologically sound and personable, Mr Alexander's promotion will suit Mr Clegg and some Tories.

Mr Clegg laughed when asked about his outfit choice.

Mr Clegg has berated Oxbridge for admitting too few state pupils.

And Mr Clegg aired some promising policies, not just an outsider's ire.

Later Sunday, Mr. Clegg also met with Mr. Cameron in Parliament.

And Mr Clegg aired some promising policies, not just an outsider's ire.

Later Sunday, Mr. Clegg also met with Mr. Cameron in Parliament.

"The party doesn't trust him, " says one senior figure who has known Mr Clegg for years.

Alas for Mr Clegg's party, hostility to the plan is widespread.

CLEGG: I'm not sure if you're like me, but the more they attack each other, the more they sound exactly the same.

Clegg admitted on Sunday night that the allegations about Fox had damaged the government.

Yet taking on Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg might soften his aloof image.

No 10 said Clegg and Cameron were agreed on making Europe focus on "the issues that matter" .

The tribalists in Mr Clegg's party are equally dismayed.

Mr Clegg can also shift the political debate in his direction.

Mr Clegg can also shift the political debate in his direction.

Teachers and doctors (many of whom supported Mr Clegg) seldom welcome change.

Mr Clegg's righteous ire should now be an asset.

Mr. Clegg held talks with Conservative leader David Cameron on Sunday and they spoke again Monday.

But one reason to doubt the glum view is that Mr Clegg and Mr Cameron make a startlingly lovely couple.

But here's the thing. Students and the wider British public shouldn't be mad at Clegg or the Liberal Democrats.

Clegg and Cameron also called on their MPs to accept Legg's findings.

Lost the 2007 party leadership election to Mr Clegg.

Mr Clegg's overall argument is that Labour's ingrained statism has failed.

The optimism around Mr Clegg is more calculating, and more focused on the world outside the party tribe.

Afterward, she texted a friend, saying, 'Clegg is getting my vote. '

Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, said: "We now have a once-in-a-generation chance to change politics for good. "

On becoming deputy prime minister last year, Nick Clegg (above) implored the Lib Dems to "own" everything the coalition did.

Got a question for Gordon Brown, David Cameron or Nick Clegg? Now is your chance to take part in television history.

'I went out shepherding with my son at about 5pm on Tuesday and we found the stuff spread over an area of about 25 acres, ' Mr Clegg said.

Stuart MacLennan, the Labour candidate for Moray in Scotland, used Twitter to share some ripe remarks about Mr Cameron and Nick Clegg;

For both Clegg and Cameron, the AV fight is a zero-sum game