The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation. – Nick Clegg
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
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
Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does. – Nick Clegg