It’s safe to say that Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg don’t get on. Even before he was
elected leader, Miliband told the New Statesman he would never work with the Lib Dem leader:
He refused to share a platform with Clegg in the AV campaign, and then attacked him in Newcastle with a list of promises he accused the Lib Dems of breaking.“Given what he is supporting, I think it is pretty hard to go into coalition with him.”
All along, the plan has been to turn those who voted Lib Dem in 2010 against Clegg and lure them over to Labour. Whether it’s working is hard to tell. In the latest Ipsos MORI poll, 52 per cent of 2010 Lib Dem voters said they were “dissatisfied” with Nick Clegg, but then only 23 per cent are “satisfied” with Ed Miliband.
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