OPEN warfare broke out last night between the Coalition parties as senior Scottish LibDems dug in over plans to vote against David Cameron in the boundary-changes dispute, accusing him of losing his authority.
The party's chief whip in the Commons, the Orkney & Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael, said there was "no prospect" of LibDem ministers being sacked if they voted against the Prime Minister's plans to redraw constituency boundaries, despite some Tory MPs insisting such "treachery" must be punished.
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