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Are we on the verge of a blue-yellow coalition?

Senior Lib Dems are optimistic about doing a deal with Cameron.

By Mehdi Hasan

Memo to fellow progressives: this might not be our “moment”. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news on the day that hundreds of people are gathering in central London to call for electoral reform, but I’m here to inform you that the Lib Dems might be about to do the unthinkable and join up with the Tories.

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