The point when power mattered more than ideology Most of us, I guess, are still trying to digest the breath-taking sequence of events of the past 24 hours and the extent to which Cameron and his team have gone to accommodate the desires of their Lib Dem coalition partners. I just wonder whether what we’ve seen is the equivalent of Blair “Clause 4” moment when that piece of Labour was ditched in the name of modernisation and electability. For more…
We’ve now got more details of the “deal” struck between the Tory and Lib Dem negotiators over four days of talks and which sees Nick Clegg becoming deputy PM and four other members of his party joining the cabinet. There’s also agreement on a range of key policy areas where the two parties differed. I wasn’t expecting that number of Lib Dem cabinet ministers though there’s little doubt that the government will benefit from the addition of highly capable people…
….a change of government
…the Labour government has only an hour or so left Sky is suggesting that Brown could be going to the palace tonight and maybe David Cameron will be installed as PM a short time later. What we don’t know yet are the details of the CON-LD deal – something that will provide the framework for our politics for several years to come. Mike Smithson
Were the LAB-LD talks a means of pushing him out? Over the past few hours details have been coming out about yesterday’s move by Balls/Mandelson/Campbell to get their “offer” on the table – a development that was supercharged by Brown’s dramatic statement. The impression that’s coming over is that the Labour bid to Clegg’s party was not that serious but a manoeuvre to put pressure on the Lib Dem – Tory talks. A key part was that amazing statement from…
With Labour MPs opposed to voting reform holding a meeting this afternoon the mood seems to be moving from Lib-LAB to the LibServatives. One minister has now been quoted as saying that LIB-LAB “won’t happen” and words like “tricky” are now being used to describe the situation. According to the BBC ticker Schools Minister Diana Johnson told BBC Radio Humberside: “What I think, at the moment, is that the numbers for a Liberal-Labour coalition government just don’t stack up. We’ve…
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