As Channel 4 reminds us, there have been two major trends in recent opinion polls. First, the precipitous
decline in the Lib Dem vote share. And, second, a solidification of the Labour position, such that some polls even have them as the biggest party in a hung parliament. Predictably, this has
stirred the omnipresent Simon Hughes, and some other folk around Westminster, into talking about a LibLab
coalition.
Which is why Ed Miliband’s comments in the New Statesman today are so eyecatching. He tells Jason Cowley and Mehdi Hasan that he couldn’t go into the coalition with the Lib Dems if they were led by Nick Clegg. He’s got problems with “what [Clegg] is supporting,” you understand.
This is a new approach from one of the Labour leadership candidates. Until now, they’ve all tended to treat Lib Dems as a single mass – and a mass that deserves
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