LIVE BLOG: Clegg and Cameron’s changing Coalition?
A year since the rose garden and the signing of the Coalition agreement, Nick Clegg admits times are tough for the Lib Dems. Follow #c4news live blog for updates and a Channel 4 News/YouGov poll.
19.00: Nick Clegg has told Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow “to put it politely we were stuffed” over tuition fees, whether the Liberal Democrats had gone into coalition with Labour or the Tories. He also defended his actions on the NHS reform bill. Watch the interview above.
@Kantian3 tweets: Cuts, broken promises, austerity for most, increased wealth for the richest, social division and back to the 80s!
17.00: Exclusive: a YouGov poll for Channel 4 News finds more than half of Lib Dem supporters believe the Coalition will collapse before a general election and a third think Nick Clegg should go before then. Read more: 52 per cent of Lib Dems think Coalition won’t last 5 years
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16.00: We’re taking a look at the results of our Channel 4 News/Yougov survey of Liberal Democrat members. It will not make comfortable reading for Nick Clegg. But Chris Huhne can smile, a little. Full details on the way.
13.00: Jon Snow interviews Nick Clegg later. What would you ask the deputy PM on the Coalition’s first birthday?
12.20: David Cameron tells MPs that “exports are growing, 400k more in work, Labour don’t want to hear what the Government’s achieved…”
12.15: Cameron promises that there will be “significant and substantial changes” to NHS reforms after Nick Clegg branded them a “disruptive revolution”.
12.00: At Prime Minister’s Questions, Ed Miliband tells David Cameron to “Calm down dear!” in an exchange over NHS reforms – one of the most controversial Coalition projects so far. Read full Channel 4 News analysis in our special report here: NHS: Uncovered
@toujoursbien tweets: I think it's done better than we expected but worse than the gov hoped. But it takes practice, and this year will be easier!
10.30: Mr Clegg declares that the current Government is a “coalition of necessity, not of conviction”.
10.15: Mr Clegg insists he was “absolutely right” to join forces with Tories to tackle the UK’s economic crisis.
@Nonamesleft999 via Twitter: We have been saved from Labour mismanagement of the economy by the Conservative/Lib Dem coalition but cuts r too front-ended.
10.00: In a speech to mark today’s first anniversary of the coalition Nick Clegg concedes times are tough for the Lib Dems and that “vital questions” must be asked about the future of the party. He says the Coalition will not fail but it must “change”.
A year of the Coalition – add your voice
The Coalition reaches its first anniversary in far from celebratory mood, with both David Cameron and Nick Clegg saying that their parties will take a more “businesslike” approach to their partnership in the coming year.
The PM has insisted the Conservative partnership with the Liberal Democrats will survive a full five-year parliamentary term to 2015, but acknowledges that more of their arguments will be played out in public.
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