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Clegg uses speech to justify role in cuts

Nick Clegg was accused yesterday of using his Lib Dem conference keynote speech to justify his party’s roll in pushing through unpopular Tory policies.

The Deputy Prime Minister rattled off his party’s policies implemented by the coalition in a desperate bid to rally his party’s dwindling number of downbeat troops.

In his final appeal to the British public before the general election, Mr Clegg also pleaded for voters not to punish him for his infamous decision to sell out students and treble tuition fees.

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