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Nick Clegg
Sir Nicholas William Peter Clegg is a British retired politician and media executive who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015 and as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2015. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Hallam from 2005 to 2017. An "Orange Book" liberal, he has been associated with both socially liberal and economically liberal policie…
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culture · Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015 · politician · writer · communicator · also Nick Clegg, Nicholas Clegg, Nicholas William Peter Clegg, Nicholas "Nick" William Peter Clegg, Sir Nicholas William Peter Clegg, Clegg
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2026· 9 entries
“wisdom with hindsight is an easy thing”
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“though we have disagreed on this issue I fully understand and respect their strongly held views on the subject.... However, as they have recognised, the shadow cabinet cannot operate effectively unless the principle of collective responsibility is maintained.”
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The Times: Nick Clegg’s ex-adviser denies sexual assault at party conference
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Daily Mail: Nick Clegg's former special advisor 'sexually assaulted woman at Liberal Democrat party conference', court hears
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Public attention spiked: 2,514 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.9× the usual 641, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Move 1 url. Wayback Medic 2.5 per WP:URLREQ#thejc.com
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The Guardian: Silicon Valley including Meta has embraced Maga politics, says Nick Clegg
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The Guardian: The best books to read in May: new paperbacks from Ocean Vuong, RF Kuang and Nick Clegg
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The Guardian: British AI datacentre firm Nscale raises $2bn as Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg join board
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2025· 14 entries
The Guardian: Nick Clegg takes role at London-based venture capitalists Hiro Capital
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Yahoo Finance: Nick Clegg joins VC firm HIRO Capital to target spatial AI opportunities
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The Guardian: Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister
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The Guardian: Nick Clegg: US-UK tech deal is ‘sloppy seconds from Silicon Valley’
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The Guardian: How to Save the Internet by Nick Clegg review – spinning Silicon Valley
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Yahoo Finance: Nick Clegg’s book on saving the internet reveals surprising stories from inside Meta
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Yahoo: Nick Clegg has hit a pathetic new low – simpering at Zuckerberg’s feet
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The Guardian: Silicon Valley is full of wealthy men who think they’re victims, says Nick Clegg
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The Guardian: ‘At Meta I found myself wrestling my deputy in an MMA gym’: Nick Clegg on the culture shock of Silicon Valley
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The Guardian: ‘If I felt Zuckerberg and Sandberg were monsters, I wouldn’t have worked at Meta’: Nick Clegg on tech bros, AI and Starmer’s half measures
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The Guardian: Nick Clegg defends Meta’s removal of Facebook and Instagram factcheckers
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UPI: Nick Clegg, Meta's head of global affairs, to step down
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Digital Journal: Nick Clegg leaves Meta global policy team
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Deadline.com: As Donald Trump Prepares To Take Office, Meta Names New Public Policy Chief As Nick Clegg Departs
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2024· 2 entries
Observer: Meta’s Global Affairs Head Nick Clegg Explains Why Meta Is Approaching A.I. Differently
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PBS: Nick Clegg on the challenges of AI content, misinformation
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2023· 1 entry
Observer: Nick Clegg Is Meta’s Transparency Man
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2020· 1 entry
Clegg helped lead the creation of the Facebook Oversight Board, which reported to him, convincing former Danish Prime Minister and former College of Europe friend Helle Thorning-Schmidt to serve as its co-chair
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2019· 1 entry
“aggressive and regressive English nationalism”
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2018· 2 entries
Awarded Knight Bachelor (2018).
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“the clock is now ticking for the end of the union of the United Kingdom”
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2017· 11 entries
“I commend the Secretary of State for ignoring some of the more over-excitable demands from parts of the Brexit press and some of his Back Benchers, and for confirming, as he has done today, that he will incorporate into British law some of the jewels in the crown of the EU—the habitats directive, the working time directive and the green renewable energy directive—that we can all agree on. He will know, however, that there will be a fork in the road: the Government will either have to keep those”
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“I am grateful for that explanation. I will not try to improve upon the technical proficiency and expertise that the right hon. Lady has just displayed, because I cannot match her for that. I hope in many ways that she has just made my point, which is that we are condemned to fiddling around in the undergrowth to shift a little bit of money here or there to try to square a circle. We came to the conclusion in the coalition—the Minister may remember—that it is not possible to introduce a nation”
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“The hon. Gentleman is entirely right. I have gone on a bit of a journey on this: I have always had a somewhat kneejerk liberal reaction of slight squeamishness and reticence about the idea of politicians, the Government, Whitehall and public policy experts seeking to tweak or improve how parents choose to raise their children, which I intuitively think is no business of politicians, but I agree with the evidence. Much like the right hon. Member for Loughborough, I agree on almost nothing with th”
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“I thank the hon. Member for Manchester Central (Lucy Powell) and the right hon. Member for Loughborough (Nicky Morgan) for the cross-party collaboration and work that has secured this debate on this all-important subject. In time-honoured Westminster fashion, there is an inverse relationship between the importance of a subject and the level of attendance, but that does not mean we should not persist. I join them, and everyone who has spoken today, in expressing my condolences to the family and f”
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“The right hon. Gentleman would start blaming bad traffic on the EU if he could. It is absurd. We picked the fight, not the EU. His party picked the fight; the EU did not. I have one observation that I want to press the Secretary of State on. Even if he gets the deal on the issue of EU citizens here and UK citizens there, which I sincerely believe he wishes to seek, and even if that goes as smoothly and quickly as he has suggested today, there is no earthly way that this Government can separat”
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“Remind me, was freeing ourselves from red tape not one of the principal reasons why the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Mr Duncan Smith) and so many others told us that we should leave the European Union? Yet this Government are going to create a tsunami of red tape, which EU citizens, including my mum and my wife, will rightly resent just as much as this Government have always resented red tape in Brussels. The particular irony is that the Secretary of State and I worked clo”
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“I must make progress; there is very little time. Turning to the other, perhaps more meaningful amendment, the double standards that we have just heard about red tape are duplicated several times over by the double standards of Brexiteers saying, “We should free ourselves”—at any cost—“from the lack of democratic accountability in Brussels,” when the first thing they do is undermine and weaken the principle of democratic accountability in this House. I have listened closely to the Government’s”
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“I must declare an interest, because the political is personal for me on the issue of EU citizens in the United Kingdom, as I suspect it is for many other Members in this House. The two most important women in my life—my mother, who is Dutch, and my wife, who is Spanish—are directly affected by this. While they are of course special to me, I none the less think that their fate, and the uncertainty that they have endured, is typical of the constituents of many across the House. My mother has lived”
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“Will the Minister stress to the Committee again that that applies to both the withdrawal agreement and a final agreement on the future relationship between the UK and the EU? It is my view, which is shared by many others, that the former is feasible within two years but the latter is highly unlikely. What will happen if a withdrawal agreement is reached but not a new agreement between the UK and the EU?”
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“The right hon. Gentleman is, as ever, making an articulate case from his point of view about the dangers of a vote at the end of the process. Can he explain why, on 20 November 2012, in a very interesting blogpost entitled, “The double referendum on the EU”, he advocated a second referendum with the following question: “Do you want to accept the new negotiated relationship with the EU or not?”? How on earth and why on earth has he changed his mind since then?”
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“It is a novel concept that the winning side in a competition invokes the arguments of the losing side to make a case that it did not make itself. That is ludicrous. The Brexit campaign deliberately did not spell out to the British people what Brexit means, which is why it is right that, when we finally do know what Brexit means, the British people have another say. My final point is that the British Government have taken the mandate of 23 June 2016 and not only disregarded the 16.1 million pe”
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2016· 1 entry
Following a referendum in which a majority supported leaving the European Union, Clegg returned to the Liberal Democrat frontbench, concurrently serving as Spokesperson for Exiting the European Union and for Internationa
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2015· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 56th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2015–2017).
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2013· 1 entry
With Mike Thornton holding the seat for the Liberal Democrats, despite a 19% swing away from the party
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2012· 1 entry
“get up, dust ourselves down and move on”
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2011· 2 entries
In an interview in April 2011, Clegg stated he dealt with the pressures of political office by reading novels late at night and he "cries regularly to music".
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Told a party conference that the Liberal Democrats were radical centrist in orientation: "Our opponents try to divide us with their outdated labels of left and right
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2010· 7 entries
But lost out to Labour whose vote was up by 10 percentage points
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Campaign: 2010 general election.
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Career landmark: Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2010–2015).
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Career landmark: Lord President of the Council (2010–2015).
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Career landmark: member of the 55th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2010–2015).
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“an immense amount of respect for people of faith”
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Clegg elaborated on this question, stating: "I was asked a question once in one of those questions where you're only allowed to answer 'yes' or 'no', and I was asked 'Do you believe in God
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2008· 2 entries
“a liberal by temperament, by instinct and by upbringing”
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Career landmark: Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom (2008).
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2007· 2 entries
Admitted his leadership ambitions to journalists at a fringe event
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Career landmark: Leader of the Liberal Democrats (2007–2015).
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2006· 1 entry
Career landmark: Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesman (2006–2007).
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2005· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the 54th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2005–2010).
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Clegg served in a variety of leadership roles in the Liberal Democrats, most notably as spokesperson for Home Affairs, before being elected to succeed Menzies Campbell as party leader in 2007
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2004· 1 entry
Clegg explained to the Select Committee on European Union that the aim of MEPs like himself, who had been active in the debate on the EU's negotiating mandate, was to obtain the right to ratify any major WTO deal entered
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2002· 4 entries
Accused Gordon Brown of encouraging "condescension" towards Germany
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Arguing in an article in The Guardian newspaper that the battle to persuade the public of the benefits of Europe was being fought at home, not in Brussels
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About the importance of devolution in secondary education systems, based on comparative research across Europe
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“all nations have a cross to bear, and none more so than Germany with its memories of Nazism. But the British cross is more insidious still. A misplaced sense of superiority, sustained by delusions of grandeur and a tenacious obsession with the last war, is much harder to shake off”
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1999· 2 entries
Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (1999–2004).
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Was the first Liberal parliamentarian elected in the East Midlands since Ernest Pickering was elected MP for Leicester West in 1931, and was credited with helping to significantly boost the Liberal Democrat poll ratin
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1998· 1 entry
Clegg was selected as the lead Liberal Democrat candidate for the European Parliament in the East Midlands constituency; the following year, Paddy Ashdown was first to tip him as a politician to watch
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1993· 2 entries
Clegg won the inaugural Financial Times' David Thomas Prize, in remembrance of an FT journalist killed on assignment in Kuwait in 1991
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That founded TRACECA—an international transport programme for the development of a transport corridor for Europe, the Caucasus and Asia
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1986· 1 entry
Where he studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Robinson College
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1980· 1 entry
And later at Westminster School in Central London
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1978· 1 entry
“this is an immense victory [...] for the rights of Gurkhas who have been waiting so long for justice, a victory for Parliament, a victory for decency”
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1967· 1 entry
Born 1967-01-07.
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