Remember when Nick Clegg said that the coalition was shuffling into a new phase? One where his party would would
make their presence, and their differences with the Tories, more acutely felt? Turns out the Lib Dem leader wasn’t kidding. Judging by this report of a press briefing he has given in Mexico, the brave new phase
is very much in effect.
For starters, Clegg luxuriates in the anti-nuclear hysteria that has arrived in the wake of Fukushima — emphasising not just that our planned nuclear power stations will be more costly and difficult to build now, but also his party’s policy that no public money should be used to fund their construction. And then there’s what he has to say on the 50p tax, all but confirming that it will be scrapped and replaced by some form of mansion tax.
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