Nick Clegg, a former Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister, lost his seat of Sheffield Hallam to Labour’s Jared O’Mara in the U.K.’s general election.
Conceding defeat, Clegg said âin politics, you live by the sword and you die by the sword.â
He added that the new British parliament would preside over “a deeply, deeply divided nation,” and called on MPs not to âamplify what divides them.â
Clegg was deputy prime minister in the Lib Dem’s coalition government with the Conservative Party following the 2010 U.K. election.