How striking that, as another Parliamentary term draws to a close, all the talk is of
some sort of union between the Tories and the Lib Dems. There was Mark Field’s blog post about an electoral pact, yesterday, of course. But now Rachel
Sylvester follows it up with an article in the Times outlining a possible “metrosexual
merger” between the two parties. And Paul Goodman has a piece in the Telegraph suggesting that such a
merger may well be in the offing.
In many repsects, all this chatter is testament to the early success of the coalition. What we have seen over the past few months has, on the whole, been responsible and surefooted government by a group of people who seem to get on personally as well as politically. It is this, not the spending cuts, which has drawn perhaps the thickest dividing line with the New Labour years.
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