Coalition press pack

Informed by extensive research Coalition charts the emotionally wrought, politically-charged and frenzied days in 2010 which led to Nick Clegg’s astonishing rise from rank outsider to the man who would decide the fate of the country.

As he took to the podium for the UK’s first ever televised leader’s debate, Nick Clegg had been an MP for just five years and was the new kid on the Westminster block. Living in the shadow of Brown and Cameron his Lib Dem party was relegated to the side lines. But as he finished his impassioned speech something powerful had emerged. Something which awoke a British public desperate for change, and threatened to shake the current political system to its core: Clegg-mania. The election failed to produce a majority and left Cameron and Brown courting one man…