May 2015 is an age away in political terms. But the question of what happens to the
coalition after the next election is too politically interesting to be able to resist speculating on; even if this speculation is almost certainly going to be overtaken by events.
Over at ConservativeHome, Paul Goodman asks if Cameron and Osborne share Francis Maude’s view that the coalition should continue after the next election even if the Tories win an outright majority. My impression is that they do. If the Tories won a majority of between 10 and 30, I’d be surprised if Cameron didn’t try and keep the coalition going.
There are four main reasons why I think the Tory leadership would want to keep the Liberal Democrats in the government in these circumstances.
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