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James Forsyth: The Lib Dems' fight to keep facing both ways

Nick Clegg has a very good chance of staying in power. Here's how

4 January 2014

9:00 AM

4 January 2014

9:00 AM

This will be the coalition’s last full year, and it is remarkable how few people are talking about how it will all end. Last January, every conversation in Westminster was about when the two parties would disengage. Tory ministers were eyeing up the jobs that would be available once their coalition partners had left the cabinet table, Liberal Democrats mused on the ways that, once freed from the chains of office, they could demonstrate that they were a truly independent force.

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