Read about the coalition agreement made between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats after the 2010 general election. It resulted in David Cameron becoming Prime Minister and Nick Clegg Deputy Prime Minister.
Robert Hazell and Ben Yong’s work, The Politics of Coalition: How the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Government Works, is a very readable volume. … Read the full post »
Traditionally the transport sections of party manifestos contain commitments to various expensive, long-term public expenditure projects. … Read the full post »
The taxation section contains one of the major Liberal Democrat policy objectives yet also one of the Conservative proposals that most makes many Lib Dems feel uneasy. … Read the full post »
At the time David Cameron started talking about the Big Society, the concept struck me as a mix of traditional community politics and vagueness. … Read the full post »
The public health section of the coalition agreement is very brief and rather anomalous as a section on its own. … Read the full post »
The political reform section of the coalition document is the second longest in the whole agreement, beaten for length only by the NHS section. … Read the full post »
The story of this section of the coalition agreement in a nutshell is “short term good news, long term uncertainty”. … Read the full post »
The national security section of the coalition agreement is brief. … Read the full post »
The jobs and welfare section of the coalition agreement is one of the least important – not because the policy area doesn’t matter (it certainly does) but because it says very little beyond, “we want to make the welfare system better”. … Read the full post »
International development has been one of the totemic policy areas which David Cameron chose to show how he was changing the party. … Read the full post »