Live blog: coalition deal set out
Updated on 20 May 2010
Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will deliver full details of their historic coalition deal today. The final document is 10 times as long as the initial four-page draft, and reaches enough common ground to stay in power for five years, they argue.
Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will deliver full details of their historic coalition deal today.
The final document is 10 times as long as the initial four-page draft, and reaches enough common ground to stay in power for five years, they argue.
Meanwhile, Cameron has launched an "audacious power-grab" against his own backbench MPs, it has been revealed.
The prime minister plans for ministers to break with tradition and play a role in the influential 1922 Committee.
The news come as the race for the Labour leadership heats up, with Andy Burnham and Diane Abbott entering the fray today.