article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg tonight vowed to block the Tories imposing deep welfare cuts as the price of any future Coalition deal.
article_snippet.sent: In an interview on the BBC, Mr Clegg also suggested Mr Clegg would veto a new deal unless Tories agreed new taxes on the rich.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg’s insistence that Mr Clegg’s will not go into Coalition with the Tories if Coalition insist on such deep welfare cuts increases the possibility that the Lib Dems could strike a deal with Labour after the election.
article_snippet.sent: In exactly the same way that I could never countenance recommending to the Liberal Democrats entering into a coalition with the Labour Party that isn’t serious about balancing the books rather than the specious stuff the Labour Party’ve come up with today. '
article_snippet.sent: Equally I would not recommend to the Lib Dems that we go into coalition with the Conservatives if the Conservatives insist on a plan which is a marked departure from what we’ve done in coalition with the Conservatives.
article_snippet.sent: ‘coalition with the Conservatives’re asking for £12billion over two years.
article_snippet.sent: coalition with the Conservatives want to ask the poorest to make additional sacrifices whilst not asking the richest to pay an additional penny through the tax system to balance the books.
article_snippet.sent: In an interview on the BBC tonight, Mr Clegg said the price of another Coalition would be new taxes on the rich and a scaling back of the Prime Minister’s planned welfare cuts .
highlights_snippet.sent: Deputy PM pledged to force David Cameron to impose new taxes on the wealthy .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The Liberal Democrats have called for £3bn of new welfare savings .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Coalition has slashed £20bn off the benefits bill in five years since 2010 .
  