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Clegg spin ‘won’t wash’ with voters
Labour candidate says Clegg will be judged on Con-Dem cuts

Nick Clegg was warned yesterday that voters will judge him on the Con-Dem’s cuts record, despite the Deputy PM’s latest desperate bid to distance himself from the Tories.

After propping up the coalition for more than four years, the the Lib Dem leader called on the Conservatives to “come clean” with voters about the scale of planned cuts.

But his Labour rival for the Sheffield Hallam seat was clear that Mr Clegg’s constituents will “look at what he’s done not what he’s said.”

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