Clegg hits back at Tory EU sceptics

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Series Details 5.11.10
Publication Date 05/11/2010
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Report of a FT interview with Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party in the United Kingdom and deputy Prime Minister in the Coalition Government, November 2010.

He faced down Eurosceptic Conservative MPs by insisting that Britain would wave through a European treaty reform designed to underpin the euro and that the coalition would not use it as a chance to repatriate powers to London.

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