Lib Dem conference: sense of unease but not revolt

The overwhelming sense in Liverpool is still unease not revolt. Former MP, David Rendel, an opponent of this coalition from the start, said you don’t back every coalition policy in pubic any more than you agree with your wife when you go to her choice of film and don’t rate the movie. Really? One for the advice columns.

Others piled in ever so gently behind him asking for a little more distance and differentiation.

But Danny Alexander, the uber moderniser, just got a reasonably good reception for giving a speech George Osborne would have heartily approved of … and under the “consultation” arrangements for conference speeches, No. 10 did actually approve it.