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Lib Dems Vote For More Principle, Less Stability

Submitted by Tom on Sun, 14/11/2010 - 23:35

Hardly world-shattering news - who'd'a'thunk that rank and file Liberal Democrats might be quite liberal and pro-democracy? Not Nick Clegg, oddly, for whom the fact that his own party has voted to support itself is being characterised as something of a warning shot.

Whitehall Watch Analyse The Coalition

Submitted by Tom on Wed, 22/09/2010 - 21:26

Not read WW for a while, but he's got a decent piece up about how the Lib Dems are shaping up, which is well worth a peruse.

Liberal Democrat ministers already sound like they have gone ‘native’ in government – I have heard interview after interview in which they talk about the Government in collective terms.

Whip it

Submitted by Alex on Sun, 20/06/2010 - 13:37

There's an interesting machinery of government story over at the Watch; we've pointed out the importance of cabinet committees in the Whitehall system before, and this particular change probably explains a lot of the turn towards a hard-right cuts agenda.

I Needed Money 'Cos I Had None; I Fought The Laws

Submitted by Alex on Sun, 30/05/2010 - 12:47

But the Laws didn't win. Promising to return the £40,000 in expenses he paid his lover wasn't enough to save the Treasury Chief Sec; George Osborne, amazingly, says that:
It was as if he had been put on earth
to be Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Do I detect a note of horror at the thought of having to run the show himself?

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