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Queen's Speech — Debate (1st Day) (18 Nov 2009)

Lord McNally: ...good. We are not interested in simply making running repairs to the reputation of a Government who have spent 10 years arguing in Cabinet and dithering in government. As my right honourable friend Nick Clegg has pointed out, this gracious Speech is no more than a charade concocted by a Government who have run out of ideas but who dare not go to the country. As a result, we find ourselves...

Welfare Reform Bill — Report (1st Day) (Continued) (22 Oct 2009)

Lord McKenzie of Luton: ...that we should have a Pre-Budget Report with huge increases in pensions. I guess that that is just another Lib Dem uncosted proposal, and I do not know whether he has checked that with his leader, Nick Clegg.

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Home Insulation Scheme (1 Oct 2009)

Nicola Sturgeon: ...to say what part of the budget they would take that money from. I wonder how Liam McArthur's call for yet more money to be spent on yet another part of the Scottish Government's budget fits with Nick Clegg's recent call for savage cuts in public expenditure. Perhaps Liam McArthur would care to square that circle.

Building Britain's Future — Statement (29 Jun 2009)

Lord McNally: ...But we get that in the 12th year of a Labour Government. As Harold Wilson once memorably said, where have you been, Rip van Winkle? Let us have a look at climate change. My right honourable friend Nick Clegg said the other day that he went to one of the new North Sea wind farms and although he searched in vain he could not find a single piece of British-made equipment on the wind farm. It...

Scottish Parliament: Former Gurkha Soldiers' Rights (18 Jun 2009) See 2 other results from this debate

Alex Neil: ...that we owe to the Gurkhas. I am delighted that Joanna Lumley, working with the Gurkhas, was able to gain the support of all the Opposition parties—on this occasion led, to be fair, by Nick Clegg—to secure the reversal of the decision that was made by Phil Woolas. When I have the pleasure of meeting Mr Woolas in London next month, I will take the opportunity to convey to...

Iraq — Debate (18 Jun 2009)

Lord Lee of Trafford: ...of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Steyn, and the noble Lord, Lord Butler, while the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, drew attention to the lack of military representation on the committee. As Nick Clegg said in the other place, "everyone knows that the invasion of Iraq was the biggest foreign policy mistake that this country has made in generations". He went on to say: "A secret inquiry...

Political Parties and Elections Bill: Report (1st Day) (Continued) (15 Jun 2009)

Lord Tyler: ...lack of certainty over the proposed parliamentary standards authority. The PSA is still a gleam in the Prime Minister's eye and, perhaps, in the Minister's eye. However, my right honourable friend Nick Clegg has already backed the idea of independent monitoring and an investigative agency of this sort, and I understand that the Conservative leader seems equally well disposed to this. Of...

Scottish Parliament: United Kingdom General Election (11 Jun 2009)

Michael McMahon: ...for our disadvantaged communities soon enough. It would appear that he will be visiting as many people with no hope and no money as he can, to learn from their experience. His first stop will be Nick Clegg's office. The debate has helped to expose yet more of the contempt with which the First Minister treats this place. Alex Salmond would prefer to pop off to Westminster to attempt to...

Constitutional Renewal — Statement (10 Jun 2009)

Lord McNally: ...groundbreaking work done by the Power inquiry under the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy. The time is now for action, not for words. We on these Benches welcome, as did my colleague in the other place, Nick Clegg, the setting up of the parliamentary standards authority. And we will co-operate fully in any machinery to ensure that this House is fully involved in defining its powers and...

Sale of Mobile Homes (Interviews): New Clause 1 — Quality of further education college buildings (5 May 2009) has video

Stephen Williams: ...also refer to Plumpton college, in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Lewes (Norman Baker), and North Devon college, in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for North Devon (Nick Harvey). Bournemouth & Poole college is near to the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Dorset and North Poole (Annette Brooke), who has been with us for most of the...

Health — Debate (30 Apr 2009)

Baroness Barker: ...natural environment are essential for health equity". Social reformers since the 19th century have been trying to persuade Governments of just that. My colleagues in another place, Vince Cable and Nick Clegg, have stated repeatedly that a key part of our economic recovery will be investment in green technology and in such matters as environmentally sustainable housing. If there is to be a...

Scottish Parliament: Alcohol Strategy (26 Mar 2009) See 2 other results from this debate

Kenny MacAskill: ...in the part of the United Kingdom where the problem is significantly greater than it is elsewhere. I compare that position with the courageous steps that have been taken by Christopher Huhne and Nick Clegg.

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Iraq War Inquiry (25 Mar 2009) has video

Edward Davey: ...Member for Richmond, Yorks, is that the inquiry should be announced now and begin on or around 31 July, when the troops are supposed to be coming home. My hon. Friend the Member for North Devon (Nick Harvey) pressed the Foreign Secretary on the timing of the inquiry during the Queen's Speech debate on foreign affairs. He asked whether it would have to wait until every last man was out of...

Political Parties and Elections Bill: Second Reading (18 Mar 2009)

Lord Tyler: ..., not just to the national limit. That principle was accepted at the end of the 19th century and surely it must apply now. I am quite willing to accept that if my right honourable friend Nick Clegg writes to a group of electors in a specific constituency, that expenditure must also be the responsibility of the local agent and recorded against the local limit. Some Members of your...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Prime Minister (Meetings) (12 Mar 2009)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: ..., possible—I know this from my Westminster experience—both to oppose tax rises that go across the quality whisky brands and to support minimum pricing for alcohol. I plead in support Nick Clegg. He is in exactly that position of opposing punitive tax rises but supporting a minimum price for alcohol to stop deep discounting. Nick Clegg is not attending the Scottish Liberal...

Scottish Parliament: Scottish Government (Record) (5 Mar 2009)

Michael Russell: ...A9, A96 and A82; dualling the A9 north of Inverness; the Leadburn junction in Peeblesshire; and a Selkirk bypass on the A7 from Ladylands to Bridgeheugh. How exactly all that equates with the views of Nick Clegg, who said that the Liberal Democrats would pay for £20 billion of cuts by cutting major road projects by 90 per cent, does not appear easily understandable. Nor does it fit...

Euro — Question for Short Debate (29 Jan 2009)

Lord Dykes: ...and seek to invoke those very crises as reasons for postponing yet again consideration of this matter but I believe that the reverse applies. I was delighted at the strong leadership shown by Nick Clegg in another place, with his article in Monday's Independent advocating this target as soon as the circumstances were propitious and utilised. It also brought our party back to the original...

Scottish Parliament: Budget (Scotland) (No 2) Bill: Stage 1 (14 Jan 2009) See 1 other result from this debate

Kenneth Gibson: ...more; we can have minority Administrations without the Liberal Democrats and their fantasy economic politics. They are in a moribund party that makes the days of Nicol Stephen and Ming Campbell look like halcyon days compared with the new era of Tavish Scott and Nick "Who?" Clegg. We have an opportunity today to move forward on a budget that will deliver—within our...

Scottish Parliament: Gaza (Humanitarian Disaster) (8 Jan 2009)

Jim Tolson: ..., who took part in the trip to Gaza, made a good speech. I am glad that he congratulated the organisations that are taking practical steps to help people in Gaza. The Liberal Democrats' UK leader, Nick Clegg, has called on the UK Government to stop arming the Israelis. I certainly back that call.

Scottish Parliament: Rising Cost of Living (30 Oct 2008) See 1 other result from this debate

Gavin Brown: ...that Tavish Scott had been standing in front of the sea in a bad light and had been short of time. There we have it. Tavish Scott got away with his mistake only because it was overshadowed a day later when Nick Clegg said that he thought that the state pension is approximately £30 per week. The policy does not even have the support of Vince Cable, the man who most Liberal Democrat...