Clegg “Not Going to Change Course” on Budget Policy
The deputy prime minister says Britain cannot return to the “bad old days” of borrowing.
Liberal Democrats (UK)
Clegg Criticizes Cuts as Britain Slides Into Recession
The Liberal Democrat leader questions the coalition government’s austerity program.
House of Lords Reform Threatens to Split Coalition
Liberal Democrats want an elected second chamber. Conservatives are critical of reform.
Green Cosmopolitanism Fashionable in North Europe
Socially liberal green parties are on the rise from Britain to Berlin.
British Liberals Decimated in Local Elections
According to Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, his party was being “blamed” for coalition spending cuts.
Clegg Vows to Protect NHS from Privatization
Britain’s deputy prime minister promised not to let the profit motive undermine his country’s public health care system.
British, German Liberals Losing Appeal
In coalition with conservatives, Britain’s and Germany’s liberal parties are trailing in the polls.
The Great Experiment
With David Cameron installed as prime minister on Tuesday evening, for the first time in almost seventy years the United Kingdom has a coalition government again. Will it hold? Elections in early May produced a hung parliament with the Conservatives just twenty seats short of a majority. Negotiations between Labour and the minority Liberal Democrats […]
Clegg: Brown Can’t Stay If Labour Loses
If his party loses the election, Gordon Brown can’t stay on as prime minister.