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Thursday, 12th July 2007

What do you call a coalition without Ming?

9:38pm

Martin Bright has an intriguing interview with Ming Campbell in this week’s New Statesman. In it, Ming confirms that he and Brown discussed the possibility of current Lib Dem frontbench MPs serving in Brown’s cabinet. Yet, interestingly, it seems that the possibility of Campbell himself taking a job was not discussed.

Campbell also tells Bright that:

“PR is fundamental to our analysis of what is necessary for the United Kingdom. It would be inconceivable for us to be in a full-blown coalition with a party that does not accept that."
All of which raises the question, is a coalition without Campbell a full-blown one?

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