Editing Radical centrism (section)

=== United Kingdom ===
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[[File:Nick Clegg - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011.jpg|thumb|[[Nick Clegg]] speaking at the [[World Economic Forum]] annual meeting in [[Davos]], 2011]]
Following the 2010 election, [[Nick Clegg]], then leader of the [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]] (Britain's third-largest party at the time), had his party enter into a [[Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition agreement]] to form a majority government.<ref>Author unidentified (12 May 2011). "[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8676607.stm David Cameron and Nick Clegg Pledge ‘United' Coalition]". BBC News website. Retrieved 4 February 2013.</ref> In a speech to party members in the spring of 2011, Clegg declared that he considers himself and his party to be radical centrist:

<blockquote>For the left, an obsession with the state. For the right, a worship of the market. But as liberals, we place our faith in people. People with power and opportunity in their hands. Our opponents try to divide us with their outdated labels of left and right. But we are not on the left and we are not on the right. We have our own label: Liberal. We are liberals and we own the freehold to the centre ground of British politics. Our politics is the politics of the radical centre.<ref>Clegg, Nick (13 March 2011). "[http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/03/government-liberal-politics Full Transcript, Speech to Liberal Democrat Spring Conference, Sheffield, 13 March 2011]". ''New Statesman''. Retrieved 18 January 2016.</ref></blockquote>

In the autumn of 2012, Clegg's longtime policy advisor elaborated on the differences between Clegg's identity as a "radical liberal" and traditional [[social democracy]]. He stated that Clegg's conception of liberalism rejected "statism, paternalism, insularity and narrow egalitarianism".<ref name=Reeves/>