Nick Clegg admits government has had "blunderbuss" approach Clegg appeared to deliberately distance himself from David Cameron in stark contrast to their early friendly relationship. His comments come as he challenges the Conservative Party over changes to civil liberties, saying he could not accept current proposals to create secret courts. He has already reportedly clashed with Theresa May over plans to give the security services new access to individuals' internet communications and has invited civil liberty groups to challenge them. Clegg told the newspaper: "We now have to answer for the responsibilities in government in a way that we didn't have to four years ago. That is why I think we need to be even more forceful and remorseless in explaining our side of the story and setting out how we are seeking to deliver for voters and millions of ordinary people. His comments come shortly after the Lib Dems launched their campaign for local elections in May, where it is feared the party will lose seats due to a drop in popularity. Clegg said: "I want us to get out and stop apologising for being in government, stop apologising for the difficult things we are having to do to pull the economy back from the brink. Instead we should highlight to people what we are actually delivering. Over the last couple of years there are some things we have proceeded with in sort a blunderbuss fashion, legislatively. But there are other areas which I am directly responsive for - on individual voter registration - where we have been very careful to publish stuff, scrutinise, react and amend.