Liberal-Conservative Coalitions - ‘a farce and a fraud’?

By Ian Cawood

Liberal-Conservative Coalitions - ‘a farce and a fraud’? - Ian Cawood
  • Release Date: 2013-05-10
  • Genre: History

Description

In 1886 Liberal Unionist Lord Derby said coalition governments 'were always unpopular and seldom lasted long.' On the eve of the third anniversary of the current Coalition Government, Ian Cawood, of Newman University, assesses the performance, politics and popularity of the six previous coalition governments in the last 120 years - and the implications for relations between the parties in coalition today.