He has been called, among other less circumspect things, “the Lib Dem lothario”, but despite the disarming good looks, there is more to Nick Clegg than conquests.
He doesn’t believe in God. He did community service as a 16-year-old exchange student in Munich for setting light to a professor’s cacti collection. And on December 18, he succeeded Sir Menzies Campbell after the party was decapitated in a brutal political coup.
Since then, 41-year-old Clegg – who speaks five languages and counts among his ancestors a Russian nobleman – has declared open war on the failings of Whitehall, railed against the vilification of Britain’s young and learned a thing or two about talking too frankly to Piers Morgan.
In a slightly less explicit interview with MSN in his Westminster office, Clegg reveals where Gordon Brown went wrong, why he has been tight-lipped over whether he used illegal drugs as a teenager... and the extent of his devotion to Johnny Cash. We only just managed to prevent him from bursting into Mamma Mia! Beat that, GQ...
by Laura Snook, senior news editor
July 24 2008
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