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    Liberal Democrats rule out coalition with Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour

    Pro-EU party is looking to sweep seats in Remain constituencies

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    Planned cuts to education and welfare need to be reversed

  • Saturday, 17 December, 2016
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  • Friday, 21 October, 2016
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    Interviews with former ministers cast fresh light on inner workings of Whitehall

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    Farron praises record in office with Tories but distances party from Corbyn’s Labour

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    UK election: How Cameron killed his coalition

    Lynton Crosby, the Conservatives’ blunt strategist, never strayed from his campaign plan

  • Friday, 8 May, 2015
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    Cameron will mourn the coalition

    We will now see what a Tory government unfettered by the Lib Dems achieves, writes Gus O’Donnell

  • Wednesday, 6 May, 2015
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    General election: Cameron ‘still fighting for a majority’

    Tories ready to open talks with Lib Dems if vote produces hung parliament

  • Monday, 4 May, 2015
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    Vince Cable lays groundwork for Lib Dem coalition demands

    Business secretary says his party would insist on retaining 24 ministers in deal to form new government

  • Sunday, 3 May, 2015
    UK general election
    Cameron prepared to ‘move quickly’ to form coalition

    Tory leader expected to ‘move quickly’ on Friday to try to seize initiative

  • Sunday, 3 May, 2015
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    With a hung parliament increasingly likely — what happens next?

    The opinion polls are stubbornly refusing to shift

  • Thursday, 30 April, 2015
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    General election: Tories and Lib Dems clash over benefits

    Danny Alexander says Conservatives have ‘secret’ plans for £8bn in cuts

  • Thursday, 30 April, 2015
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    General election: The compelling case for continuity in Britain

    A Conservative-led coalition would serve the United Kingdom best

  • Wednesday, 29 April, 2015
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    Post-election chaos threatens to expose UK economic weaknesses

    Top of the list of potential concerns is a ‘twin’ budget and current account deficit

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    Cameron pledges to ban tax rises until 2020

    Policy would tie hands of chancellor if Tories won

  • Wednesday, 29 April, 2015
    Philip Stephens
    Britain should celebrate an election stalemate

    Whatever happens, the old political order is unravelling

  • Tuesday, 28 April, 2015
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    The British economy after the coalition

    Why should one be desperate to avoid a free loan? Growth-promoting borrowing is needed

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