Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John Major were identical. This happens quite often that parties actually, despite all the sound and fury, agree on the overall need to make sure that we live within our means as a country.

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.