Are CCHQ already planning how to push through their next coalition? Mr S only asks as word reaches Steerpike that Conservative backbenchers have been urged to return to London immediately after the General Election in the potential event of a snap vote.
The pressure is on for any future coalition to be put to the parliamentary party after this failed to happen in 2010. ‘There is a lot of soreness about how the party was bounced last time around into accepting the last deal, and we shall not be bounced this time around,’ a 1922 Committee source recently told the BBC.
An email from the Government Chief Whip which suggests plans are afoot has been passed to Mr S:
‘Please also email your Whip if there is any reason why you will not be available to be here in London immediately after the general election, should that prove necessary.’
Touchingly ‘The Chief’ signs off:
‘Please remember that during the campaign – as always – your Whip is there to help with any issues which may arise.
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