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Labour’s rapidly warming official attitude towards the Liberal Democrats

By Mark Pack | Wed 14th December 2011 - 7:50 am

Over on the Spectator website, Peter Hoskin neatly summarises the latest warming in the Labour Party’s official attitude towards the Liberal Democrats:

Remember when MiliE described them as a ‘disgrace to the traditions of liberalism’? Since then he has said that, actually, he’d work with the Lib Dems so long as they ditched Clegg; that he’d work with them even if they kept Clegg; that … oh, you get the picture. And now this : the closest that Labour have come, in spirit at least, to matching the ‘big, open, comprehensive offer’ that Cameron made at the end of

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Posted in News | Also tagged douglas alexander, ed miliband, labour party and nick clegg | 19 Comments

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