Clegg cited the new £150m national scholarship fund as a measure which he said would help the poorest applicants, and claimed that tougher access requirements for institutions charging up to the £9,000 fees cap would open the doors of the best universities to a wider mix.
A third-party candidacy that launched on 1 April would have just 106 days to find 460,000 such signatures across the 11 states with tough ballot access rules.
"The tougher the access, the fewer visitors, the more wildlife, and the better the fishing," he told me.
That was a problem too, during this show, which felt grander and tougher to access than the band's usual performances.
Legends and rumors of surly landowners — including one who held two hikers at gunpoint — have given the smallest state's high point a reputation as America's toughest to access.
Illinois has some of the toughest ballot access laws in the country, and qualifying for the ballot requires gathering a different number of signatures in each of the state's 18 congressional districts.
While most of us are enjoying our summer holidays, parents with disabled children are finding it tougher to access the respite care they desperately need for them and the rest of their family to have a break from their 24/7 caring roles.
And as reserves of oil, coal and gas become tougher to access, governments are looking ever harder for alternatives, not just to produce energy, but to help achieve the holy grail of all sovereign states - energy independence.
It was the first widely accessible moment of a purposely tough-to-access crew.
"It's tough to get access for platforms that can collect.
Cities and states have a need to be extremely tough in limiting access to guns, but they need to do it with more forethought than went into the Chicago ordinance.
