Go to the RTL Nieuws website and, after the advertisement, you will find a news report in Dutch about the rise of Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats. Stay with it and you will hear Nick answering questions in Dutch.
And it's proper Dutch too. He is not like Steve McClaren saying: "Yesh, I zhink we might win Leiceshter Shouth."
As someone said - ooh, it was me! - the real Nick Clegg:
owes a lot to his cosmopolitan - almost exotic - background and that the roots of his liberalism lie there too. It is a background Liberal Democrat members would like to hear about and it would chime with many voters in modern Britain. It would also help to differentiate him from David Cameron in the public mind.
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His Dutch is very good, with just a slight hint of not being a native speaker. His pronunciation is rather posh.
Shouldn't be impressive, but yes it really is.
Do we have a Shadow Welsh Secretary who can speak Welsh?
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