Clegg won’t join without proportional representation; Cameron says he won’t
countenance such a ‘con’. Indeed, it runs deeper than that. Iain Martin has canvassed Tories from across the
party and found that Cameron will get short shrift if he tries to reform the voting system at all.
There is another consideration. This election has the potential to blow traditional party structure out of the water. Labour’s right will be marginalised by the unions’ grip over the party and Liberal Democrats like David Laws and Clegg (up to a point) have more in common with the One Nation Tories than they do with out and out left wingers like Kennedy and Cable. Laws’ education reforms are subtly market orientated; Clegg’s civil liberties agenda is akin to that of David Davis and Dominic Grieve. The Lib Dem wings are united by PR and largely divided on everything else.
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