"There is a particularly acute anxiety about the future at the moment in some of the big northern cities. I think it's principally because people remember the 1980s as a particularly vicious recession for them and their families."
Admitting that a well-funded No campaign with active Tory support might thwart the Lib Dems' hopes of modifying the traditional first-past-the-post system, Clegg explained: "If [voters] say no, they have said no. It's an opportunity, finally – heaven knows we have been talking about this long enou
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Nick Clegg acknowledges Liberal Democrat 'anxieties'
Nick Clegg says coalition will survive if he loses alternative vote referendum
