Sir Nick Clegg: live by the sword, die by the sword

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore || JOE Media

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🗓️ 5 February 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Politics is a brutal game, and few politicians know this as well as Nick Clegg. The former Deputy Prime Minister and ex-Liberal Democrats leader gives James O’Brien an in-depth and revealing interview, covering his years in coalition with the Conservatives and his relationship with Prime Minister David Cameron, the Lib Dem massacre at the 2015 election and subsequent decline of the party, and his belief that Brexit can, in fact, be stopped.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Unfiltered with James O'Brien, brought to you by Joe.
0:04.3	Hello and welcome to episode 17 of Unfiltered I'm James O'Brien shortly to be
0:15.4	joined by the man who was deputy prime minister and remains one of the most
0:20.1	interesting politicians of our age. I speak of course of Nick Clegg and I'm
0:25.8	looking forward to this for two reasons. Number one I've never got under his bonnet
0:28.8	before and I'm fascinated to know what we're going to find there. And number two, on a slightly self-referential level,
0:35.0	this is the first sort of big,
0:37.0	in terms of the length of it, interview that I've done with a politician,
0:40.0	albeit that he's not in the House of Commons anymore,
0:42.0	in quite a long time, pretty much since I stepped down from or be it that he's not in the House of Commons anymore.
0:43.0	In quite a long time, pretty much since I stepped down from presenting Newsnight on the BBC
0:47.2	so that I could carry on shooting my mouth off about Brexit and Donald Trump in my other work.
0:52.0	So I'm keen to see whether I could remember how to do it.
0:55.0	I have to confess Nick Clegg, I missed your knighthood.
1:05.0	I was only when I started spotting up.
1:08.0	No, no, don't worry, it's not the most important thing
1:10.0	in the Christmas holidays.
1:12.0	Clearly that's why perhaps it just sort of dropped off the radio. I didn't think to have happened in the Christmas holidays.
1:12.6	That's why, perhaps, it just sort of dropped off the radar.
1:15.0	Has it changed your life being ennobled in this fashion?
1:17.3	Of course not.
1:18.3	No, of course not.
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