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Clegg turns on the Conservatives over NHS funding

Nick Clegg has accused the Conservatives of "trying to pull the wool" over voters' eyes by failing to reveal how they would fund the National Health Service.

During his party's mental health policy launch, Clegg promised the Lib Dems would pump an extra £2.25 billion into mental health services in England by 2020 to reverse decades of "institutionalised indifference" to the issue.

In a surprise appearance, TOWIE star Joey Essex attended the event in Watford to interview Clegg for his ITV show Educating Joey Essex.

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Clegg expects leaders' debate to be 'quite different'

Nick Clegg said Thursday's leaders' debate on ITV will be "quite different" to those that took place during the 2010 election campaign.

"It'll be quite different from my point of view ... last time I hadn't been in government and in a sense that I was introducing myself to the British public for the first time," the Lib Dem leader said.

"This time I'm a much more familiar proposition to many viewers."

Clegg said he believes that of the seven party leaders he will be the only one with "a balanced centre ground approach to finishing the job of balancing the books".

  • The ITV Leaders' Debate airs at 8pm on Thursday
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