5129 x 3407 px | 43,4 x 28,8 cm | 17,1 x 11,4 inches | 300dpi
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1. Oktober 2008
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Nick Clegg is MP for Sheffield Hallam and Leader of the Liberal Democrats. He was born in 1967 and studied at three universities: Cambridge, Minnesota and College DÕEurope. Nick worked as a trainee journalist at the US magazine The Nation and won a national prize for first time writers at the Financial Times. He then worked as a development aid and trade expert for the European Commission, including managing aid projects in some of the poorest parts of the former Soviet Union and leading the European Union side in negotiations for China and Russia to join the World Trade Organisation. He was elected as a member of the European Parliament in 1999, where as Trade and Industry spokesman for the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe he led the move to open up the domestic telecoms market, allowing consumers to pick their telephone provider for the first time and advocated trade measures against illegally logged timber. He was a co-founder of the Campaign for Parliamentary Reform, which argued for more transparency and accountability in the European Parliament. Throughout his time as an MEP, Nick wrote essays on public policy issues including greening the WTO, secondary education policy, and reform of the EUÕs decision making procedures. For several years he was a columnist for Guardian Unlimited. Nick stood down from the European Parliament in 2004 and lectured part time at Sheffield and Cambridge Universities. He was elected as MP for Sheffield Hallam in 2005 with a majority of 8, 682. Charles Kennedy appointed him as Europe spokesman, acting as deputy to Sir Menzies Campbell. When Campbell won the 2006 leadership election, he appointed Nick as Shadow Home Secretary. He spearheaded the Liberal DemocratsÕ defence of civil liberties, campaigned for prison reform, a liberal approach to immigration, and defended the Human Rights Act against ongoing attacks from across the political spectrum. In January 2007 he launched the Liberal DemocratÕs We Can Cut Crime c
