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Nick's Crystal Ball - written on Wednesday 22 June

Nick Clegg: what you will wake up to if we vote to Leave… (Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) Nick Clegg 19:34Wednesday June 22nd 2016 Are you still undecided? Are you someone who - pummelled by weeks of claim and counter-claim - has been left exhausted and annoyed? Have you been looking for answers, yet all you've encountered are insults and exaggeration?

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1 Jul 2016
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Coalition

Some thoughts on reading “Coalition” by David Laws

Could Nick Clegg be the "comeback kid"? I am currently working my way through ex MP and Minister David Laws' book on the 2010-2015 Coalition government. Whether it's a little soon to be penning such a portrait of what many of us feel was a worthwhile, if flawed, project so soon after its demise is debatable. The cynics might conclude that, deprived of his parliamentary and ministerial source of income, Mr Laws was presented by his publisher with an offer he could not refuse. Whatever his motives, his quite candid book offers a fascinating insight into how governments work and into some of the characters who populate them. Some of you will probably take issue with some of my conclusions, as I have always been a supporter of this experiment in peace time cohabitation. After all, if you believe in Proportional Representation, which usually, but no always, produces parties with no overall majority, you have got to put your money where your mouth is and not back off when the first, and possibly, only opportunity i

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Theresa May: I wouldn’t call an early general election

On Wednesday night the Lib Dem Federal Policy Committee (FPC) starting putting in place the system for writing our next general election manifesto, so as to be ready in the event of a snap general election this year. But worth noting also is this from Tory leadership candidate Theresa May:

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1 Jul 2016
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