Nick Clegg faces a grilling by Pimlico pupils

How annoyed are you that the media focuses on Labour and Conservatives?

I have given up getting annoyed, it would send me round the bend if I got annoyed.

I think politics is changing.

In the old days, you either voted Labour or Conservatives but more and more people are saying no, they want to do something different.

At our academy, a lot of provision is made for after school clubs, school trips and investment in providing a balanced curriculum.
How can you guarantee this for all students nationwide?

I would like all children to have the opportunity to do different things at the end of the school day.

One of the ways of doing it is by giving schools, particularly those who aren't so lucky, extra money to then allow the headteacher to decide what they want to do with it.

I have talked about smaller class sizes and one-to-one tuition.

Labour said they would eradicate children suffering by the end of the decade.
Do you think this is achievable?

If you're a baby born in my city of Sheffield today, in 2010, but you so happen to be born in the poorest neighbourhood of Sheffield you will die on average nearly 14 years before a baby born in a better off neighbourhood.

That's just wrong.

Our policy of changing the tax system would put £700 back in the pockets of the vast majority of people who are on middle or low incomes.

That would make a massive difference.

Do you believe that having more police on the streets decreases crime, or are there more important things like greater investment in social care and more youth clubs?

It's right to have more police on the streets, it makes people feel safer.

I would scrap the money that the government is spending on ID cards and use the money to put 3,000 more police officers on the streets, but that's not the only thing.

You need to give young people something to do so they don't get into trouble, instead of simple ending up in the hands of the courts and the prison system.

If they get into trouble, they should face their victim, explain what they have done and apologies, then make up for it by doing work in the local community.

If you were a superhero, who would you be and how would you use your powers to benefit Britain?

My middle son, who is five, is obsessed with Ben 10.

Ben 10's pretty good with his omnitrix watch, he's pretty cool.

But I do think we don't need to be superheroes to make things better, to fix things.

We don't need to be Ben 10 to make things fairer.

It seems politicians will say anything to get the public on their side. Are you different?

I have often been accused of saying things that aren't popular.

I think it's really important to say what you believe rather than what you think people want to hear.

PUPILS' VERDICT:

The interview went well, he answered our questions.

He was quite normal, he was like the rest of us.

He wasn't quite what we expected, and he knew a bit too much about Ben 10 for a grown person, but he was really nice.