Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I going to get to power?' You get propelled forward by idealism.

At the Norwich North by-election the party came third with a 2. He was later sent to Hungary where he wrote articles about the mass privatisation of industries in the former communist bloc.

Nicholas William Peter "Nick" Clegg (born 7 January 1967) is a British politician who has been Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Lord President of the Council (with special responsibility for political and constitutional reform) since 2010 as part of the coalition government headed by Prime Minister David Cameron. Clegg became Deputy Prime Minister following the 2010 general election when the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservative Party. Clegg was elected to the House of Commons at the 2005 general election and became the Liberal Democrats' Home Affairs spokesperson in 2006.