James Forsyth James Forsyth

Laws’s resignation is a disaster for the coalition in all but one respect

James Forsyth reviews the week in politics

issue 05 June 2010

James Forsyth reviews the week in politics

Straight after David Cameron had announced his final offer to the Liberal Democrats — a referendum on Westminster’s voting system in exchange for entering into coalition — I bumped into a member of the Tory Cabinet. I asked him if he thought that the offer was unnecessary seeing as a ‘coalition of the losers’ between the Labour and the Liberal Democrats was so unlikely to succeed.

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