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David Cameron is acutely aware of a growing sense among Conservative backbenchers that they have been marginalised by the coalition with the Liberal Democrats, blogs Gary Gibbon.
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Ten months after they formed the Coalition, the Liberal Democrats list their big achievements. FactCheck takes them to task.
David Cameron is acutely aware of a growing sense among Conservative backbenchers that they have been marginalised by the coalition with the Liberal Democrats, blogs Gary Gibbon.
Labour win the by-election in Barnsley Central, one of the party’s safest seats. But the Liberal Democrats slide to sixth place behind UKIP, the British National Party and a local independent.
In a rare coalition victory for the Liberal Democrats, gay couples are to be allowed to get married in church under new proposals to be set out by ministers.
Students turn against the Liberal Democrats and embrace Labour as opposition mounts to the Coalition Government’s plan to treble university tuition fees.
FactCheck analyses how important the student vote is to the Liberal Democrats
The Liberal Democrats plan a mass abstention on the Commons tuition fees vote, writes our Political Editor, Gary Gibbon – but it could all still fall apart.
The Liberal Democrats plan a mass abstention on the Commons tuition fees vote, writes our Political Editor, Gary Gibbon – but it could all still fall apart.
Simon Hughes, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, signals cracks in the coalition as he tells Channel 4 News housing benefit cuts will not get through parliament.
FactCheck looks at a few of the pledges the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have dropped in the name of coalition and cost cutting.
Gary Gibbon learns the Liberal Democrats do not expect a rebellion by 30 MPs over university reform, despite NUS claims that they are lining up to protest.
Vince Cable issues a warning to Nick Clegg – if he were leading the Liberal Democrats, he would handle things differently.
Nick Clegg defends his deal with the Conservatives telling the Liberal Democrats that the coalition will “govern well for the next five years”. Political Editor Gary Gibbon analyses the reaction.
Cathy Newman analyses how the Conservative right wing and the Liberal Democrats are teaming up to demand a review into the winter fuel allowance.
In the last few weeks I was struck by the number of Liberal Democrats in parliament who spontaneously brought up in conversation how worried they were about the images that the cartoonists were embedding in the public consciousness, writes political editor Gary Gibbon.