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Video: Stringfellow to challenge Clegg

Peter Stringfellow has suggested he will stand against Nick Clegg in the Deputy Prime Minister's Sheffield Hallam constituency at the 2015 General Election. The nightclub owner has twice been singled out by Mr Clegg as someone who doesn't deserve things like the pensioners' winter fuel allowance.

Speaking on a London's LBC 97.3 last night, Mr Stringfellow from Sheffield hinted that Nick Clegg's seat might be a target.

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Clegg blasted by former Lib Dem County Councillor

In a scathing attack on Nick Clegg, in his new 'Call Clegg' segment on LBC, John from Woking said he was renouncing his membership of the Liberal Democrat party.

He told the Deputy Prime Minister:

"I am a Liberal Democrat who has just torn up his membership card. I just joined the party first in 1973 and I'm afraid I cannot now say that I want to represent the Lib Dems.

I'm an ex-County Councillor in Surrey and I'm ashamed of what the party's doing."

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Nick Clegg to host weekly radio phone-in

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"I don't think politicians get to hear enough from people directly," Mr Clegg said. Credit: Chris Radburn/PA Archive

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will hold a weekly radio phone-in in a fresh attempt to reconnect with voters.

The Liberal Democrat leader will take half-an-hour's worth of calls from listeners to London's LBC 97.3 radio with presenter Nick Ferrari every Thursday morning.

"I'm doing this because I don't think politicians get to hear enough from people directly," Mr Clegg said. "You can't do the right thing in government unless you keep in touch with how people are thinking and feeling."

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