Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrats’ new leader, has defied political convention with a frank admission that he is an atheist.

During a round of media broadcasts on the morning after his election to the post, he was asked by one interviewer: “Do you believe in God?”

“No,” Mr Clegg answered simply, during an appearance on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Nick Clegg says: ‘I don’t believe in God’ -Times Online.

However Mrs Clegg is a Catholic and their children are being brought up as Catholics. Will they reject religion more easily when they grow up, because their father has, or will the Catholicism be permanent?

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