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Live chat with Nick Clegg, Tues Dec 11th from 2-3pm

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CarrieMumsnet · 06/12/2007 12:07

Hi all

Nick Clegg, one of the contenders for the leadership of the Lib Dems, will be answering your questions on Mumsnet on Tues Dec 11th from 2-3pm.

If you can't make Tuesday's chat, please post your advance questions here.

For those of you who haven't perhaps followed Nick's career as closely as you should have, here's a short biog courtesy of his office:

Nick is MP for Sheffield Hallam (majority of 8,682) and the Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary. He was born in 1967 and studied at Cambridge, Minnesota and College D?Europe. He's married to Miriam Gonzalez Durantez and has two young sons. He takes his parenting duties seriously; his working day usually starts by taking his sons to school and when Miriam returned to work after the birth of their first son, Nick stayed at home to look after their child.

Before entering Parliament, Nick worked as a journalist and then as a development aid and trade expert in the European Union, including managing aid projects in the poorest parts of the former Soviet Union and overseeing the EU?s side in negotiations for China and Russia to join the World Trade Organisation.

His political interests include the defence of civil liberties, campaigning against Identity Cards and proposing a Freedom Bill to repeal unnecessary legislation.

See you all for a late-lunch-at-the-computer on the 11th.

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themulledsnowmanneredjanitor · 11/12/2007 14:05

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dubonnet · 11/12/2007 14:06

You lot are so rude

Monkeytrousers · 11/12/2007 14:06

Is he waiting for the questions again Justine? Or is he looking at them now?

Swedes2Turnips1 · 11/12/2007 14:07

All this waiting kind of makes you sorry for Gordon Brown.

Blandmum · 11/12/2007 14:07

awwww, I've got to go! The traffic in town is so bad.

If you do answer it, just imagine that I've come back with a pithy rejoinder!

dingdongMegaLegsonhigh · 11/12/2007 14:08

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dingdongMegaLegsonhigh · 11/12/2007 14:08

oops soz!! Don't know what happened there, sorry Nick >

Monkeytrousers · 11/12/2007 14:09

Nursery pick up at 3 so we can't go over!

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Monkeytrousers · 11/12/2007 14:10
dingdongMegaLegsonhigh · 11/12/2007 14:10

Ohhhh Nicholaaaaasss - cooooeee

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OliviaMumsnet · 11/12/2007 14:12

Hi there
Sorry for the delay, we were a bit premature with our introduction.
Nick had been held up but we're hoping he's here now.

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dingdongMegaLegsonhigh · 11/12/2007 14:14

Do you think we scared him off?

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Monkeytrousers · 11/12/2007 14:15

Doris Lessing was right!

nappyaddict · 11/12/2007 14:15

tehe i got all excited then when i saw all these comments. thought he'd arrived!

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NickClegg · 11/12/2007 14:17

JoJoJoy you ask about flexible working times. As a young dad with two small children, who also have a mum in a demanding full time job, i know exactly what you mean. I think we need to do a combination of things: give one lengthy allocation of paid parental leave to working couples so they can divide it up themselves in a way think suits their family best; extend the right to demand flexible working to all workers; and push employers, particularly big employers, to help provide some childcare facilities near or at the workplace as they do in many companies in Scandanavia. Above all, we must move away from this unproductive, macho culture of excessively long working hours in this country.

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lemonmeringuepie · 11/12/2007 14:18

ooh I was hoping I wouldn't miss this.
Nick, I have a question - I know that you're multilingual and spent time in Europe workwise, but what has your marriage to a Spaniard taught your about Britain's relationship with Europe?