Chris Huhne may regret making this
statement
Quote:
Asked about another story that Mr Clegg worked for a lobbying firm that helped weaken EU financial rules, Mr Huhne said: "That's the sort of smear that we are getting in the Tory papers this morning."
He said it was "no secret" Mr Clegg had been a lobbyist but said he had a "career doing real work outside the political system" and had been a lobbyist for a "brief period".
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The
Times CV (from two years ago) for Nick Clegg states
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Journalism: Trainee journalist, Nation magazine, New York, 1990
— Other jobs:
Political consultant GJW Government Relations 1992-93;
adviser to Sir Leon Brittan, European Commission vice-president, 1996-99;
lecturer, Sheffield University, 1999
— European politics:
MEP for East Midlands, 1999-2004
— British politics:
Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam since May 2005;
foreign affairs spokesman 2005-06;
home affairs spokesman since 2006;
elected leader of the party in December 2007
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What that misses out is that Mr Clegg worked in 1991 as a Trainee at the European Commission, Brussels. DGI, G-24 Co-ordination Unit, and for GPlus (another lobbying firm) 2004-05, where
he described his work as
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giving businesses "intelligent professional help in engaging with the EU institutions".
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Besides a trainee journalist post for six months, and some part-time lecturing for under a year, what is this "
career doing real work outside the political system" that Nick Huhne refers to?
(strangely enough, if it's "no secret", why is neither lobbying job mentioned on Nick's CV on the Lib Dem website....
).