After the first televised debate of Labour/Gordon Brown, Conservatives/David Cameron, and Liberals/Nick Clegg, the relatively inexperienced Nick Clegg stormed through as the most convincing debater. He is a newcomer with constituency in Sheffield Hallam, where he won the election with 51,2 percent of the votes in 2005. He has a journalistic background, degrees from Cambridge/UK and Minnesota/USA. He has served in the European Commission 1994-96 and been MEP/member of the European Parliament from 1999-2004.
Danish opposition leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt (A), a Social Democrat, knows him from this role, speaks positively of him, and describes him as an eager European Union supporter. However, this very fact may also be one of his disadvantages with the British electorate, most of whom have less than luke warm feelings towards the union. Let's see how he will do when the debates continue next week over foreign policy among other issues.
For further information, please see:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/person/8485/nick-clegg
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/oct/21/icm-poll-data-labour-conservatives
Danish opposition leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt (A), a Social Democrat, knows him from this role, speaks positively of him, and describes him as an eager European Union supporter. However, this very fact may also be one of his disadvantages with the British electorate, most of whom have less than luke warm feelings towards the union. Let's see how he will do when the debates continue next week over foreign policy among other issues.
For further information, please see:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/person/8485/nick-clegg
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/oct/21/icm-poll-data-labour-conservatives