86. Nick Clegg: Coalition, Cameron, and Chaos (Part 1)

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🗓️ 21 July 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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What closed-doors conversations led to the 2010 coalition? What were the coalition years like? How did it all go wrong for the Liberal Democrats in 2015? Rory and Alastair are joined by Nick Clegg to discuss all this and more. If you'd like to hear the second episode RIGHT NOW, it's already available to members of The Rest Is Politics Plus - sign up at therestispolitics.com. If you're not a member, it will be released next Monday (29th July) on the public feed. TRIP ELECTION TOUR: To buy tickets for our October Election Tour, just head to www.therestispolitics.com Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: [email protected] Video Editor: Teo Ayodeji-Ansell Social Producer: Jess Kidson Assistant Producer: India Dunkley Producer: Nicole Maslen + Fiona Douglas Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:13.0	Hello and welcome to the rest of politics.
0:19.0	Hello and welcome to the rest of politics leading with me Rory Stewart and me as to
0:24.4	Campbell and we are about to play the first of two episodes with Nick Clegg
0:30.3	who as he shall explain has had really three careers one in Europe one in the British
0:35.3	Parliament where he became leader of the Liberal Democrats and deputy prime minister
0:38.6	and now as a big cheese in the tech world in Silicon Valley. So we've gone through his
0:45.0	childhood life and times a bit of politics where his politics comes from in the
0:49.8	first half which you're here now and then a week later or if you're a subscriber whenever you
0:54.6	want you'll have the second part where we focus much more on modern times more modern
0:59.3	times today he's got some very interesting things to say about the coalition.
1:03.4	Not the biggest fan anymore, I would say, if Cameron and Osborne.
1:06.0	No, but also brutally honest about the toll that politics took on him.
1:11.2	Fascinating about the need for constitutional change.
1:13.8	I mean, yeah, so much to get into.
1:15.6	I thought he was very open and sort of vindicates, I sometimes think my idea that generally
1:20.4	the ex-politicians are able to be more open than the current campaigning ones.
1:23.7	Yeah, he's also the first interviewee we've had where we've now done two members of a married couple
1:30.3	because we talked to Miriam, his wonderful Spanish wife a while back.
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