Indian-origin Lib Dem donor in `cash for honours` row

Last Updated: Monday, January 21, 2013, 00:33

Britain`s Deputy PM Nick Clegg has been embroiled in a `cash for honours` row over a planned peerage for Indian-origin business tycoon Rumi Verjee.

Plan to reform House of Lords abandoned by UK govt: Nick Clegg

Last Updated: Monday, August 6, 2012, 23:49

Reforming the upper house was part of the coalition agreement, but seen as being mainly driven by the Liberal Democrats.

Cracks in UK coalition, but no divorce yet

Last Updated: Monday, July 16, 2012, 18:52

Cameron on Monday insisted that he was "even more committed" to ensure that his government lasted until 2015.

House of Lords is `flawed`, says Deputy PM

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 00:38

British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg on Monday said the House of Lords is a `flawed institution` that exercises power without legitimacy.

UK to help poorest girls in the world

Last Updated: Monday, September 19, 2011, 23:53

The projects will help provide 650,000 girls with a full six years of primary education.

UK economy facing serious problems: Deputy PM

Last Updated: Monday, September 19, 2011, 09:16

The economy faces "very serious" problems but the government will not veer from a path of swinging austerity cuts to tackle a big budget deficit despite anaemic growth, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on Sunday.

UK Deputy PM attacked with blue paint filled egg

Last Updated: Friday, August 26, 2011, 14:26

Stuart Rodger, a 22-year-old politics student at the University of Glasgow, was arrested following the incident.

British PM says trusts deputy, but not yet friends

Last Updated: Saturday, January 8, 2011, 12:22

Conservatives, Lib Dems had taken a risk in governing together, said Cameron.

Clegg vows to restore civil liberties undermined by Labour

Last Updated: Saturday, January 8, 2011, 00:03

UK`s Deputy PM Nick Clegg promised to restore civil liberties undermined by the previous Labour administration in the name of fighting crime and terrorism.

Angry Britons put dog excrement in Clegg`s letterbox

Last Updated: Saturday, October 30, 2010, 16:35

British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said voters angry about government spending cuts put dog excrement in his letterbox.

No question of being friends with Cameron: Clegg

Last Updated: Saturday, October 30, 2010, 16:31

British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says his relationship with Prime Minister David Cameron is "not a question of being friends" and that they disagree on a lot of things.

We have surprised people with actions: Clegg

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 19:36

Defying predictions of early doom, Britain`s first post World War II coalition government on Wednesday completed 100 days in office, with the deputy PM Nick Clegg claiming "we have surprised people with action not paralysis."