Another day of horse-trading in UK politics?
Somehow I feel that this is nearing the end game.
Yesterday it became clear that Clegg doesn’t have enough from the Conservatives to suit him. The turning point on that seems to be a Liberal requirement to have proportional representation used in UK elections. On offer from the Conservatives was a referendum on the issue which does seem to be the correct approach. At the same time Labour came up with a guarantee to implement the change. Bearing in mind that this change is supposedly going to result in continual coalitions it’s clear that the current Labour government are only offering this as a last ditch way of staying in power.
Will David Cameron take the chance of ditching the Liberals and running with a minority government today? Probably not though I’d say he and his team are thinking of doing it very soon.
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