They said many Lib Dems would have "cringed when witnessing the love-in between David Cameron and Nick Clegg" and claimed that the Welsh party's leader was "cosying up" to Mrs Gillan.

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Love em or hate em, Gawker mini-mogul Nick Denton (soon, I hear, to be the subject of a long New Yorker profile) does have a knack of knowing what readers want and serving it up to them.

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'Love...from both Sides' by KDP author Nick Spalding is one of the top 10 bestselling items of the last quarter at Amazon.co.uk.

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Political editor Nick Robinson told the programme that a "caricature" was taking place for "political reasons" in which the Lib Dems love the NHS and the Conservatives are hostile to it and Nick Clegg is "putting the breaks on".

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Speaking at the Liberal Democrat spring conference, the party's leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg gave his support to gay marriage, saying the "freedom to love who you choose is a fundamental right in a liberal society".

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And the nostalgic love-in continued for the duration of his entertaining fourball duel with partner Fred Couples against Nick Faldo and Brad Bryant.

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