Gary Gibbon
The Tories are in danger of desperately gnawing through the very lifebelt they may need after 7 May. Put that to senior Tories and they acknowledge the problem but feel they can do no other.
Gary Gibbon
If he did get back in, what sort of David Cameron would we see? The long gone husky-cuddling eco-warrior won’t make a reappearance presumably.
Gary Gibbon
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg blazed a trail by forging a coalition partnership with the Tories. And despite the criticism he has received, he now seems at peace with himself.
Gary Gibbon
The key moment in Sir Malcolm Rifkind’s change of heart was the meeting with the chief whip on Monday.
Jon Snow
“All-out war” on mediocre schools; apparent threats to “weaponise” the NHS and the “battle” to win voters. A distraction from the real wars that dog the planet?
Business Secretary Vince Cable says the Lib Dem pact with the Tories “was something we had to do” for the national interest, but slams their current approach on tackling the deficit.
Gary Gibbon
The odds of a coalition after 2015 recede in your mind the more you chat around Westminster. It’s not impossible. But it’s not a hot favourite either.
Are you out of pocket thanks to coalition policies? And would it have been any different under a Labour government?
The Liberal Democrat home office minister Normal Baker resigns, complaining that working under the home secretary was like “walking through mud”.
Gary Gibbon
Nick Clegg revealed that George Osborne, when he refused to implement a bigger tax threshold leap in the 2012 budget, said: “I don’t want to deliver a Lib Dem budget.”
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says Westminster is “dangerously out of step” with modern Britain and he has become more anti-establishment since joining the coalition government.
The Liberal Democrats and Conservatives clash over a Commons bill that is seeking to reform the government’s so-called “bedroom tax”.
Homeowners could be compensated by the state if the value of their property falls as a result of the building of new garden cities, says Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. James Blake reports.
The day of a major cabinet reshuffle can often be used for other purposes, for example quietly unveiling a report into the much-criticised “bedroom tax”. So is the much-maligned policy working?
Unemployment continues to fall, but pay growth drops significantly – despite government hopes that the so-called “cost of living crisis” is coming to an end.