Britain has "fallen out of love with the future" and is "out of whack" on free speech, former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has warned.

The ex- Liberal Democrat leader, who was David Cameron's second-in-command during the coalition of 2010-2015, said the country was suffering from a sense of "underlying grumpiness".

Following last summer's riots, the implementation of the Online Safety Act, and this year's protests outside asylum hotels and in support of the now-banned group Palestine Action, the government has been accused of cracking down on freedom of speech.

Speaking to Sky's Wilfred Frost on his The Master Investor Podcast, Mr Clegg said the UK needed to "think long and hard" about "whether we've overdone it".

"When I've looked at some of the examples, I thought to

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