Here’s an interesting statistic from YouGov: more voters think the Conservatives have broken the coalition agreement than think the Lib Dems have failed to stick to it. When asked whether the Tories have ‘mostly kept to their side of the deal they made in the coalition agreement’, 51 per cent said no. For the Lib Dems, 45 per cent of voters thought the Lib Dems had stuck to the coalition agreement against 32 per cent who thought they had not.
It’s worth noting, though, that when you look at the breakdown of voting intention, it is Labour voters rather than Conservatives who think Nick Clegg’s party have stuck to their side of the bargain. Fifty per cent of Labour voters say the Lib Dems have mostly kept the agreement, against 34 per cent who do not. For those voters, it’s unlikely they’ll approve of the policies which the Lib Dems have had to take on the chin: tuition fee increases, NHS reform and welfare cuts.
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