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    Ukip is dragging David Cameron to the right, says Nick Clegg

    Lib Dem leader says anti-Europe party has pushed Tories right, making day-to-day progress

    in coalition more difficult

    Nick Clegg: 'My job is to make sure that my party does not get pulled left or right as Cameron

    goes right and Miliband goes left.' Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian

    Nick Clegg has claimed that the struggle on the right of British politics caused by Ukip's surge

    was pulling David Cameron away from the centre ground and making day-to-day progress in the

    coalition government more difficult.

    Interviewed on the eve of the local elections, and facing the prospect of coming fourth in terms

    of share of the vote behind Ukip, the Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister vowed

    to "dig in my heels and make sure the centre of gravity of the government as a whole does not

    get pulled rightwards due to the internal dynamics of the Conservative party".

    Clegg cited Conservative policies on welfare, Europe and climate change as the three pre-eminent

    examples of Cameron being pulled right, and conceded that his coalition partner was no longer

    the same political animal as presented before the 2010 general election.

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