Our political system is ailing: the Brexit revolution showed how susceptible it is to elite takeover, how it is designed to ignore the hopes of the young, and how it fails to provide its public with genuine political options.
Nick Clegg speaking at 'Brexit and the Political Crash', The Convention in London: “It is a curiously British élitist revolution and we need to understand what it is.” Keynote speech.
In a guest post, Nick Clegg, leader of the UK Liberal Democrats, sets out his plans for political and democratic reform ahead of the election on Thursday.
The Liberal Democrat leader wrote this article for the Guardian in 2002. It is now being used against him by a hysterically melancholic tabloid press in Britain. We are proud to republish it.