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Nick Clegg Tells Our Celebrity Questioners What He Really Thinks IS THAT THE BEST YOU’VE GOT? He would have loved to have been in The Young Ones, still sneaks the odd fag, and feels sorry for Chris Huhne. On the eve of the all-important Eastleigh by-election, the deputy prime minister Nick Clegg tells our celebrity questioners what he really thinks QUIZMASTER: YORK MEMBERY POrtrait BY HArry BORDEN NICK CLEGG from whatever party, are decent people trying to do the right thing. And in my experience, the vast majority of MPs aren’t in it for the money. RICHARD 5 MADELEY Broadcaster Getting a peacetime coalition airborne was one heck of an achievement. How long before the back- bench mutineers of both parties bring everything crashing back to earth? ARE WE BEING SERVED? There have been A teenage Clegg (second stresses and strains from left) on a London tennis — one pulling to the court with friends, 1984. Below: with wife Miriam and right, one pulling to baby Miguel, 2009. Right: the left — but as long Chris Huhne and his now as I’m involved, I’m ex-wife Vicky Pryce, 2010 going to make sure it’s anchored to the centre. JEREMY CLARKSON guarantee for state pensions. These are great MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE 1 Journalist and broadcaster achievements, but I perfectly accept that Irvine 6 Comedian is never going to give us credit for any of that. Do you feel sorry for Chris Huhne? You have three wishes, one political, one After all, he was only speeding. ARTHUR SMITH personal and one free choice. What will I do feel sorry for the whole family because 3 Comedian you do with them? Answer correctly and they have all clearly become engulfed in you win a peerage. something that has spun right out of control. What would you do if you lost your On the political front, that’s easy — a Liberal It’s not the speeding that is the issue here, it’s parliamentary seat and had to pursue a Democrat government. On a personal front, my the subsequent offence of perverting the course career outside politics. Would you make a wish would be to get more sleep. The third would of justice — and Chris has pleaded guilty. good marriage-guidance counsellor? be to have more time to practise my tennis. But I’ve no intention of losing my parliamentary you can forget the peerage — I certainly IRVINE WELSH seat! My political career has got a way to run wouldn’t want one, at least not in 2 Novelist, author of Trainspotting yet. But I’ve always said that I don’t see myself today’s unreformed House of Lords. in politics for ever. After politics, who knows Now that you’ve reneged on any worthwhile — though I think one Lib Dem MP turned LEE CHILD policies you had, and have effectively been stand-up comic is enough 7 Thriller writer lobby fodder to prop up a reactionary and [Lembit Öpik]. unpopular Conservative government, what Was joining the coalition exactly is the point of the Liberal Democrats? CAROL worthwhile? Aren’t you What a wonderfully objective question. 4 V ORDERMAN politically impotent? I think Lib Dems can hold their heads up high Broadcaster I flatly disagree that on having delivered some key manifesto it’s an exercise promises. I’ve also just recently announced Why can’t we halve in day-to-day a very progressive policy to allow mothers the number of MPs, impotence. I think and fathers to take interchangeable parental pay them more — in 2½ years as a leave. That wouldn’t have happened without and get better party in a coalition us being in government. The same goes for the people? we’ve already achieved HESE PAGES, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: AP; SOLENT NEWS; REX AP; SOLENT NEWS; REX LEFT: FROM TOP CLOCKWISE PAGES, HESE PREVIOUS PAGES: HARRY BORDEN FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE. MAGAZINE. TIMES THE SUNDAY BORDEN FOR HARRY PREVIOUS PAGES: T Green Investment Bank and the triple-lock Most MPs I know, as much as many single-party 42 The Sunday Times Magazine NICK CLEGG governments do in twice that time. sufficient to meet our global commitments? So was it worth it? You bet. ‘ I FEEL SORRY FOR It’s unlikely that the UK is going to undertake a future military expedition entirely on its DAME JENNI MURRAY THE WHOLE OF CHRIS own over a prolonged period of time in a 8 Broadcaster far-flung location. HUHNE’s FAMILY Why are you part of a government that’s MARTHA KEARNEY putting more women than men out of work BECAUSE IT’S SPUN 13 Broadcaster and reducing the affordability and accessibility of childcare? OUT OF CONTROL’ There are reports that the Conservatives There are actually more women in work than have a hit list of 20 Lib Dem MPs they are ever before — although there is admittedly an Infringement of IP is already a crime. going to target at the next election. Is that issue around the fact that we’ve got more People can also be charged under the Fraud making relations inside the coalition difficult? women than men working in lower-paid, Act. However, it’s a complex area and some I think that in revealing their hand so soon, part-time jobs. We’re taking steps to make it cases are more suited to the civil courts. they’ve made a tactical blunder. We’ll be more accessible than any previous government. targeting Conservative seats too — but I’m not We’re delivering 15 hours’ free childcare and INDIA KNIGHT going to start telling our electoral opponents pre-school support for all three- and four-year- 11 Journalist and author what our tactics are going to be at the next olds. But I accept that childcare is a huge cost general election. Where we can get our side of for many families and prevents a lot of women I sent two of my three children to private the story across on the doorsteps, we’re a potent from going back into work. My No 1 priority school, because at the time, the borough political force. Where we’re encountering now is to ensure we can find the money for we lived in [Hackney] was at the very bottom problems is where we have no meaningful more affordable childcare. of the league tables. What’s your excuse — presence on the ground, or Labour is very if you feel you need one? much in the ascendant. STUART MACBRIDE I don’t think any parent should need any excuse 9 Crime writer to do the best they can for their children. As it NIGEL PLANER happens, Miriam and I haven’t decided where we 14 Actor A lot of people (especially ladies of a certain are going to send our oldest boy to secondary age) tell me that they read crime fiction school. That’s despite the endless commentary If you’d have carried on with the acting, because they’re not allowed to actually kill that suggests people know more than we do. what role do you think you’d have been their partner, and fantasising about it is the ideally suited to play, and why? Do you see next best thing. What kind of books do you ADMIRAL LorD WEST yourself as having been more of a Benedict like to unwind with? Or do you have to save 12 Former First Sea Lord Cumberbatch or a Martin Freeman — that them for your holidays? is, a Holmes or a Watson? I have a book on the go all the time. It’s Do you believe that 19 destroyers and I’ll let others be the judge of that. I don’t think important for a politician to have a hinterland: frigates (which, disgracefully in my mind, the West End has lost much by my move into interests outside politics, be it literature, are all that the UK now possesses) are politics. Having said that, I’d love to have had theatre or family life. It helps you a walk-on part when Nigel was in keep things in perspective. I’m The Young Ones. I was part of that currently reading The Garden of generation that loved the show. Evening Mists, a beautifully written book by Tan Twan Eng. Before that DOMINIC SANDBROOK I read Capital by John Lanchester — 15 Historian and next on my list is Hilary Mantel’s Bring up the Bodies. The only books The Liberal party never recovered I never read are autobiographies by from the Asquith-Lloyd George split politicians who, within a millisecond during the First World War — the of retiring, declare they were the best last time yours was a majority party thing since sliced bread. of government. Which side would you have been on, and would they TREVOR BAYLIS have approved of you going into 10 Inventor of the wind-up radio coalition with the Conservatives? Well, Lloyd George had a war to fight, For every British inventor who while Asquith wanted to keep the has been recognised, many others party together. So it’s difficult not to have been ripped off. Isn’t it sympathise with both men. However, about time a government made I think both would have understood the theft of intellectual property us joining the Conservatives in a a white-collar crime? coalition today to do the right a The Sunday Times Magazine 43 NICK CLEGG thing in the national interest — although of Lib Dems and Conservatives want to we’re thankfully not fighting a war, we do decentralise things away from Whitehall.
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