My, what a busy character Simon Hughes is at the moment. Seems like hardly a day goes by
without some fresh observations from the Lib Dem deputy leader – and he doesn’t even rest on a Sunday. Today, there are two Hughesbites worth noting down, both from an interview with Sky. The
first:
And the second:“We should have no preference at the next election between the Tories and Labour and other parties. We are going to stand on our own.”
So, no ruling out a LibLab coalition and no electoral pacts. Tim Montgomerie and Jim Pickard offer sharp analysis of those claims here and here, to which I would simply add that this is yet another example of Hughes’s curiously disproportionate power within the coalition.“Our party is committed constitutionally to standing in every seat. We will be standing in every seat at the next election. There will be no deals, there will be no pacts…”
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