My word, the Daily Mail is a tender, easily-startled fawn. Here’s James Chapman today:
The Prime Minister raised the extraordinary possibility of a non-aggression pact between the Tories and the Lib Dems at the next election as he mounted his strongest defence yet of the coalition.
Well, the Daily Mail may consider this “extraordinary”; readers of this blog should not. This is both a logical and necessary step along the road to a second term. This, mind, will be difficult to achieve even with Liberal Democrat support for a second coalition: it will require nerve and guts and luck. But, perhaps, it can be done.
The good news is that Cameron plainly has a realistic and sensible approach to coalition management:
‘The coalition is a relationship that has to be worked on,’ he said in his exclusive interview.
‘It’s a bit like a seesaw – there will be some times it feels the Conservatives are making the running, there will be some times it feels like the Lib Dems are making the running.’
[…] “It’s important that the Lib Dems feel and are seen to feel that some of the things they care about are being delivered on and they are making a real contribution.
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