Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Deputy Leader and Shadow Deputy Prime
Minister, responding to Nick Clegg’s speech, said:

“Nick Clegg boasted in his speech about his party’s restraining influence
on the Tories, but the truth is he’s backed them all the way. He didn’t
mention the million young people out of work on his watch, the tax cuts for
millionaires his party helped to introduce, or the cost of living crisis
that means that since he became Deputy Prime Minister wages are down an
average of £1,500 a year. And he certainly didn’t mention the tuition fees
he trebled or the £3 billion NHS reorganisation his party helped to push
through.

"Nothing he said today made any difference to the fact that Nick Clegg is
propping up a Tory-led Government that’s making things worse for ordinary
families.”