Nick Clegg on Brexit regret and what Britain does next | 10 Years of Brexit Part 2
Electoral Dysfunction
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🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This is the second episode of our two-part New Year special. As Britain approaches 10 years since the Brexit referendum, Beth Rigby sits down with former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to ask what really went wrong, and why the consequences have been far worse than predicted.
From the failures of the Remain campaign to the rise of grievance politics, Clegg argues Brexit was an elite-driven project that has left the UK poorer, weaker and more dependent on American tech. He also explains why he believes Britain will ultimately return to the European fold - and what has to change before that can happen.
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| 0:50.1 | Music The Full Story First Hello and welcome to Electoral Dysfunction and part two of our series looking back at 10 years of Brexit. |
| 0:56.6 | We've been inside both camps with Ruth Harriet and Michael Gove, all with the scars of that referendum campaign. So listen to that first, if you've not heard it yet. It'll be in your feed |
| 1:02.1 | if you follow us. And this is now part two, and it's with Nick Clegg. He's the former |
| 1:07.0 | deputy prime minister, the leader of the Liberal Democrats. He served under David Cameron in that |
| 1:13.2 | coalition between 2010 and 2015. And we're going to get into some of the lessons he thinks we can learn |
| 1:20.7 | from Brexit because he's so well qualified to talk about all things Europe. He's a staunch |
| 1:26.3 | Remainer. He's a former member of the European |
| 1:28.8 | Parliament. And he is, if you like, a complete, committed European, a Euro file. And he doesn't |
| 1:35.6 | talk much about Brexit. So you're going to be in for a treat. Now, Nick Clegg, thank you for coming on our pod today. It's actually lovely to see you |
| 1:48.6 | because we did a lot of business together, didn't we? We did. Many, many years ago, including |
| 1:53.8 | a trip to Brazil in which you somehow managed to get the front page of the Financial Times |
| 1:59.2 | when I worked there. That's when you were at the FT. That was about, I had this great brainwave, which didn't go down very well, of selling shares to the British public in that West. Yeah. It went down like a bucket of sick. Very badly. The Treasury hated, but it's quite a good idea, though. Yeah, and also you were deputy prime minister at that point in a coalition, and you got the front pages in loads of national newspapers. |
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