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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12962487
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says he wants to stop people getting on in life purely because of "who they know".
As he launches the government's social mobility strategy, Mr Clegg said no-one should get an unfair advantage because their parents have "met somebody at the tennis club or the golf club".
...LATER. I MEAN IN A FEW YEARS. NOT RIGHT NOW
Clegg was born in Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire, in 1967, the third of four children. His father, Nicholas Clegg CBE, is chairman of United Trust Bank,[2] and is a trustee of The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation,[3] where Ken Clarke was an adviser.[4] Clegg's paternal grandmother, Kira von Engelhardt, was the daughter of a Baron from the multiethnic Imperial Russia, of German-Russian and Ukrainian origin, whose family fled the Bolsheviks after the 1917 Russian Revolution. One of his great-great-grandfathers, Ignaty Zakrevsky, was attorney general of the imperial Russian senate.[5] One of his great-great aunts was the writer, Baroness Moura Budberg.[6] Clegg's paternal grandfather, Hugh Anthony Clegg, was the editor of the British Medical Journal for 35 years.[7]
Clegg's Dutch mother, Hermance van den Wall Bake,[8] was, along with her family, interned by the Japanese military in Batavia (Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies. She met Clegg's father during a visit to England in 1956,[7] and they married on 1 August 1959.[9]
Clegg is multilingual: he speaks English, Dutch, French, German, and Spanish.[10][11][12] His background has informed his politics. He says, "There is simply not a shred of racism in me, as a person whose whole family is formed by flight from persecution, from different people in different generations. It’s what I am. It’s one of the reasons I am a liberal."[13] His Dutch mother instilled in him "a degree of scepticism about the entrenched class configurations in British society".[14]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12962487
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says he wants to stop people getting on in life purely because of "who they know".
As he launches the government's social mobility strategy, Mr Clegg said no-one should get an unfair advantage because their parents have "met somebody at the tennis club or the golf club".
...LATER. I MEAN IN A FEW YEARS. NOT RIGHT NOW
Clegg was born in Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire, in 1967, the third of four children. His father, Nicholas Clegg CBE, is chairman of United Trust Bank,[2] and is a trustee of The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation,[3] where Ken Clarke was an adviser.[4] Clegg's paternal grandmother, Kira von Engelhardt, was the daughter of a Baron from the multiethnic Imperial Russia, of German-Russian and Ukrainian origin, whose family fled the Bolsheviks after the 1917 Russian Revolution. One of his great-great-grandfathers, Ignaty Zakrevsky, was attorney general of the imperial Russian senate.[5] One of his great-great aunts was the writer, Baroness Moura Budberg.[6] Clegg's paternal grandfather, Hugh Anthony Clegg, was the editor of the British Medical Journal for 35 years.[7]
Clegg's Dutch mother, Hermance van den Wall Bake,[8] was, along with her family, interned by the Japanese military in Batavia (Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies. She met Clegg's father during a visit to England in 1956,[7] and they married on 1 August 1959.[9]
Clegg is multilingual: he speaks English, Dutch, French, German, and Spanish.[10][11][12] His background has informed his politics. He says, "There is simply not a shred of racism in me, as a person whose whole family is formed by flight from persecution, from different people in different generations. It’s what I am. It’s one of the reasons I am a liberal."[13] His Dutch mother instilled in him "a degree of scepticism about the entrenched class configurations in British society".[14]
