James Forsyth James Forsyth

To govern is to choose: it’s a lesson the Lib Dems are learning the hard way

James Forsyth reviews the week in politics

issue 18 September 2010

James Forsyth reviews the week in politics

‘Go back to your constituencies and prepare for government,’ David Steel told the Liberal Assembly in 1981. Twenty-nine years, six leaders and a merger with the Social Democrats later, the party is at last in government, but not in the way it had hoped.

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