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With the announced resignation of Mr Brown this afternoon, it’s playing on my mind that a Liberal Democrat\/Labour coalition looks more and more likely. Talks have formally opened between the two parties which begs the question as to what’s going on exactly with the Tory talks? I reckon, it was one of Clegg’s conditions of forming a coalition; he didn’t want to be seen as backing a failed party but with a new, refreshed, re-vitalised Labour party perhaps the Sheffield loving liberal leader will Continue reading […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1257,1260,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ge2010","category-labour","category-politics"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","trp-custom-language-flag":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

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