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Cable: We’ll only work with Labour after the next election if it is the largest party

We are at the point in the electoral cycle where the political class begins to speculate about a hung parliament. Personally, I’m sceptical that there will be one-the signs point to the polls breaking decisively for the Tories in 2009. But Vince Cable’s comments in The Times are noteworthy as they rule out the Lib Dems propping up a Labour government if Labour is not the largest party in the Commons.

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James Forsyth
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James Forsyth is former political editor of The Spectator.

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