Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg popped by the renowned Institute of Political Studies (“Sciences Po” for the French-speaking) in Paris last week for a light-hearted “conversation with students about current events”.
Among the few highlights of the conference was Mr. Clegg’s unexpected response to a British student who, as he addressed the deputy prime-minister, said he was a Lib Dem: “Be careful,” the Liberal Democrats’ leader said, “Hope you get out of here alive!”
Mr. Clegg, who in a few hours would be boarding the Eurostar back to London, took a …