Coalitions are by their very nature a power struggle.
Rarely are such Government battles like the one we saw yesterday played out in public.
But even more rarely are such pacts only a power struggle between their two parts.
Often the dynamic is strained by the difficult relationship that being in Coalition creates between the party leadership and their backbenches or grassroots.
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