A man called Nick Clegg whooshed out of nowhere during polls in UK and notched up top points in the first ever televised election debate in the country.
As the UK goes to the polls in what was supposed to be Conservative Party leader David Cameron’s election, a man called Nick Clegg has whooshed out of nowhere and notched up top points in the first ever televised election debate in the country. Cameron is leading after the third debate but Clegg has been hailed by some as the British Obama. And The Sunday Times has even anointed him ‘the most popular leader since Winston Churchill’. So, who is this man?
Clegg is the leader of the Liberal Democrats, the proverbial third party in the UK, where the traditional rivals are the Conservative Party (Tories) and Labour Party. At 43, he is the youngest of the three candidates for prime minister. Cameron is 44 and current PM Gordon Brown is 59.
Clegg studied anthropology and archaeology in Cambridge. He is married to the strikingly attractive Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, a Spanish lawyer.
In an interview with the magazine GQ, Clegg revealed that he has slept with ‘no more than 30 women’.
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