Word: britain
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Clegg, 43 and fresh-faced, has led Britain's third party since 2007. He is multinational (his mother is Dutch; his father half Russian) and multilingual (he speaks five languages). A supporter of the European Union, he worked first at the European Commission, then as a member of the European Parliament, until he gave up being an MEP in 2004 because the traveling undermined his family life. He's a new man, and if he looks a little bleary it's probably because he's been woken by his young sons or risen early to take his wife, a high...
...this Clegg's fervent allegiance to a liberal movement that hasn't led a government since World War I and you have some idea of how distant the gates of Downing Street might appear. Yet Britain's battered Prime Minister Gordon Brown is rallying support, while his untested Conservative challenger David Cameron has watched a 20-point lead dwindle to as little as two points. With neither of the two main parties on course to win an outright majority, Clegg and his Lib Dems could wake up on May 7 holding the balance of power...
...part of Sheffield I think I might scream," says Jo Swinson, a Lib Dem MP. "But I realize he's doing it so that everybody else hears it too." Says Clegg: "If you are in this rowdy crowded political marketplace, you have to paint in primary colors." (Read about Britain's National Health Service...
That palette includes "greedy bankers" and a warning that debt-ridden Britain is "like an enlarged version of Iceland." There's green too, lots of it, with ambitious proposals for investing in renewable energy and axing any expansion of nuclear power. And some might see red at Clegg's trenchant views on recalibrating Britain's relationship with the U.S. The Lib Dems opposed British participation in the Iraq war, which Clegg ascribes to "this almost unseemly knee-bending allegiance to the White House. I don't think it's good for Britain," he says. "I don't think...
...minded when you're a party leader in no danger of attaining real power. But there's every evidence that Clegg's principles run deep. That matters. The accommodations he makes if Britons return a hung parliament could have an impact well beyond Westminster. For the politician - and for Britain - this is uncharted territory...