"All of us were out there campaigning for you and so all of us are now looking forward to you helping us back at this place, " Mr Clegg told him on the steps of the Palace of Westminster.

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By now you are back from holidays and getting stuck into the new year.

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And in terms of this though, while you're saying this far and no further we won't cede these additional powers you are now pledging to take back powers that Brussels already have are you?

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But it also addressed the question: If there are 12 million people in the country now without legal status, how are you going to round them all up and ship them back where they came from?

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Does that suggest that the White House will stop now on offering any more jobs plans, or are you going to kind of lay back and let things take hold and see where it goes?

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In the back-and-forth just here about Arne Duncan, are you acknowledging from this podium now, though, that some of the things he said yesterday were not true?

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