Nick Clegg

Where is the intellectual energy from the left and the centre-left?

If you keep miscasting the past, you don't have the intellectual wherewithal to ask what you need to do next, which is why they're now governing in this haphazard way.

They've replaced policy with sanctimony.

And if you replace policy with sanctimony, you don't produce better policy.

This is where we're stuck at the moment.

And I led a centre-left party for eight years.

And the whole of Silicon Valley, not just Mark Zuckerberg, but all that you saw in the inauguration, have decided to, rather than shun politics, have decided to embrace at least MAGA politics for a whole bunch of reasons.

The single biggest thing that drives their behaviour is competition with each other.

And remember, the Brexit wars were basically a battle.

It was a triumph of nostalgia over a claim of the future.

No, of course they were.

I mean, so when I arrived in Silicon Valley, so Miriam and myself and our three boys, we moved, physically moved there in the autumn of 2018.

It was a completely different time.

Silicon Valley was still quite sort of,

Quite sort of happy, clappy, bit hippy, dippy, you know, very much left leaning for sure, for better or for worse.

But crucially, social media was a social thing.

It was like about human beings.

Fast forward to now and the whole of Silicon Valley, not just Mark Zuckerberg, but all of you saw that in the inauguration, have decided to, rather than shun politics, which is what they did for a long time, in my view,

They've decided to embrace at least MAGA politics for a whole bunch of reasons, some no doubt high minded and some more self-interested.

And crucially, the product or certainly the product in the company I work for has changed utterly from being a sort of human centric product to one which is now much, much more about innovation.