THE very fact David Cameron and Nick Clegg felt the need to talk up the Coalition yesterday in a renewal of their political vows just underlined what a bruising time the Lib-Con marriage went through on Lords reform last week.

Despite the turbulence caused by the Right of the Tory Party and the Left of the Liberal Democrats and while the partnership has been badly shaken, the fact is neither the Prime Minister nor the Deputy Prime Minister or their respective colleagues have anywhere else to go.

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