Every Conservative should wish the Liberal Democrats a successful conference in Glasgow this week and not from any misplaced sense of coalition loyalty. The poor souls are on a pathetic 7 per cent in the polls, against 23 per cent in the general election. The Tories’ embrace has proven toxic for them. Yes, it was daft of Nick Clegg to agree to the (absurd) Tory ring fencing of health at the expense of his tuition fees pledge – and yes, he has paid the price for this historic misjudgement. Did he think people would ever forget his making promises like this one?
But no Tory can be happy that he has now lost two-thirds of his party’s support, because the lion’s share of the deserters have gone to Ed Miliband – thereby uniting the left for the first time in three decades.
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