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Nick
Clegg elected new Liberal Democrat leader
Nick Clegg has been elected the next Liberal Democrat leader, after beating
rival Chris Huhne by just 511 votes. The final result was 20,988 for Mr.
Clegg to 20,477 for Mr. Huhne.
In his acceptance speech Mr Clegg said he wanted his leadership to be
about "ambition and change", saying "we want to change
politics and change Britain".
He pledged to spend at least a day a week campaigning outside Westminster,
and to hold regular public town hall meetings to give people who were
not Lib Dem members, but supported the party, a chance to have their say.
He accused the Conservatives of having "no answers to the big issues"
and said Labour was "increasingly exhausted and discredited"
- saying it left an opportunity for the Lib Dems.
By voting for Clegg, the Lib Dems have continued their embrace of a more
free-market approach to policy, as characterised by the seminal Orange
Book, published three years ago and worked on by both Clegg and Huhne.
But the vote for Clegg may be seen as representing party confidence in
his image rather than his policies, which differed little from those of
Huhne, the party's environment spokesman.
Mr Clegg is the party's third leader in two years - Charles Kennedy quit
in January 2006, forced out by a frontbench rebellion after admitting
a drink problem. Sir Menzies resigned in October, after just 19 months
in the post, amid concern over slumping poll ratings. The 66-year-old
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