The reality is that there is no easy bounce-back recovery for the Lib Dems. It’s going to be a long, hard slog. And that’s the best case scenario.
Plus: The whitest party conference I’ve ever been to; Where will Carswell sit? Bombing ISIS in Syria; and publishing a book without having read a page of it.
…but their call for reform does shift them towards Ed Miliband’s party. Question is, will they move even closer next year?
He would find it hard to sell a second Lib/Con coalition to his party…or to serve in a Lib/Lab coalition as Deputy Prime Minister.
Doing nothing at all may well have been more successful than trying to bump off the Lib Dem leader like this.
The Lib Dem leader is stuck between his party’s left and its right, and is struggling to please either. Will there be a reckoning?
There are better ways of hitting back at Clegg than responding in kind.
Our least Coalicious award goes, aptly enough, to one of the least Coalicious ministers.
Cameron will have to campaign for a Tory majority, and that will mean distinguishing his party from the Lib Dems as well as from Labour.
Clegg says that the Lib Dems co-authored the Autumn Statement. Farron wants a free hand. Which side will win out?
If we do not stop this barbaric practice, we will have failed to protect young girls from horrific abuse.