Tory backbenchers ‘spoiling for a fight’ with Lib Dem partners
The easter sunshine has not calmed the coalition animosity between the Tory backbenchers and Liberal Democrats as the AV quandry draws nearer
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The polls have closed after a bitter AV referendum campaign. Votes have also been cast in elections for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly, Northern Ireland Assembly and local councils.
The easter sunshine has not calmed the coalition animosity between the Tory backbenchers and Liberal Democrats as the AV quandry draws nearer
Will the debate over whether to adopt AV stimulate the malaise surrounding interest in politics, asks Jon Snow.
David Cameron thinks landslide elections like the one that brought Tony Blair to power might become a thing of the past under the Alternative Vote system. Is he right?
Former home secretaries John Reid and Alan Johnson go head-to-head on Channel 4 News ahead of the referendum on AV, as an expert panel analyses the “Yes” and “No” campaigns.
David Cameron insists the referendum on the AV voting system will not break the Coalition, as Lib Dem blogger Mark Pack tells Channel 4 News the “No” campaigners have “sunk to desperate tactics”.
Despite Lib Dem hopes the advent of AV may not have as positive an impact on their political future with one analyst predicting a “total wipe out” of the party from the Welsh assembly
As the Electoral Commission sends out almost 28 million information leaflets to improve public awareness about the 5 May referendum, Channel 4 News presents a Q and A on AV.
One Conservative backbencher tells our Political Editor that Tory MPs could try to pull down the Coalition and force a General Election if the Yes camp wins the AV referendum. But it could be Ed Miliband who has most to gain.
As a Tory MP tells Gary Gibbon the AV referendum could break the Coalition, political analyst Greg Callus looks at the high stakes for Lib Dem Leader Nick Clegg.
There’s been guerilla warfare by Labour peers which threatens to scupper all or part of the government bill that brings in the AV referendum and which cuts the number of MPs down to 600, blogs Gary Gibbon.
Labour MPs are split over proposed changes to the voting system. Former Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett and former Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw explain why they are backing different sides.
The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, says he is “not embarrassed” to call himself a socialist and admits he would have joined the student protesters but was “doing something else.”
David Cameron tells the Conservative conference: there is no alternative to big spending cuts and it takes two to cut the deficit.