Nick Clegg insists on speaking Dutch at Cabinet Office meeting Nick Clegg, who speaks five languages fluently, chose to conduct a recent meeting at the Cabinet Office with Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president, entirely in Dutch. Did the Deputy Prime Minister, whose mother is from the Netherlands, do so to outfox a Downing Street official whom David Cameron had allegedly sent to spy on their conversation? "Nick enjoys being able to talk Dutch," the Liberal Democrat leader's spokesman tells Mandrake. Similarly, when he meets leaders from France or Latin America, he'll speak French and Spanish. It's very much appreciated when he goes. Usually at these meetings, there'll be an aide who can speak Dutch, too, but [this time] I don't think there was a No 10 aide there at all. Having returned from his honeymoon after marrying the television presenter Cat Deeley, Patrick Kielty appeared at the Lingerie London fashion gala, sponsored by Raffles nightclub. "Two weeks into my marriage and I get asked to present the lingerie awards," says the comedian. You can imagine what the talk has been like in the Kielty / Deeley household, can't you?