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The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, its completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties. – Nick Clegg

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I didnt become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. Its not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more. – Nick Clegg

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I dont watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. Im reading at the moment Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and Im loving it. – Nick Clegg

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You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. Its highly, highly polarised. Its right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed. – Nick Clegg

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