Clegg: ‘Our mark is clear to see’
Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, addresses activists in Liverpool on Saturday concerning the Lib Dem role in the coalition government:
“I am supremely relaxed about our independence and identity in the coalition.
“You and I can’t wish it [the deficit] away.
“You cannot build social justice on the sands of debt. It can’t be done.
“I think it’s very clear, whether it’s our influence on stepping up aid and our commitment to the developing world, whether it’s our commitment to political reform, ending child detention, whether it’s our commitment to pensioners or the child tax credit, to getting people out of paying income tax altogether, I think our mark is very, very clear to see.
“What I think is taking some time is for the way that coalition politics is portrayed to catch up with the reality of coalition politics.”
