MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Asked if he would make this decision again, Clegg said, "Yes. Absolutely." He admitted this union came at a "short-term political cost, but I'm absolutely clear in my mind."
"If you think back to 2010 – we could have been Greece. Our deficit was just as big as Greece's, our banking crisis was a whole lot worse, and I certainly wouldn't have wanted it on my conscience higher interest rates, higher youth unemployment, which I'm absolutely sure would have happened if we haven't stepped up to the plate to create a stable government without which an economic recovery is not possible."
Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party won a plurality in the 2010 general election and formed a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats, two years after a financial crisis hit the Eurozone.
