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A lasting truce between IDS and Osborne

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In the coalition, it is the rows within parties not between them that are most vicious. This is because in an internal party argument there is all sorts of emotional baggage involved.

So it is two Tories, IDS and Osborne, who have provided the most spectacular row of the coalition so far.

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