Nick Clegg: Cuts to education 'a coalition deal breaker'

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has told the BBC's Kamal Ahmed that the party will not enter into into any coalition that does not guarantee protection for the education system ''from cradle to college''.

Earlier, in a visit to Eastleigh in Hampshire, Mr Clegg disputed predictions in the polls that the Liberal Democrats would be largely wiped out at the election - and insisted that winning was in his party's DNA.