The words ‘hung parliament’ remind MPs that their own parties are coalitions

James Forsyth reviews the week in politics

MPs have a new favourite game: Hung Parliament. To solve this communal Rubik’s Cube you have to work out how a coalition could be put together if no party wins an overall majority — and what concessions would have to be made. But the real fun comes when you start working out which party leaders would have to be sacrificed to make any deal work.