As the two parties seek to win over the Liberal Democrats, much is (rightly) being made on the left of the apparent opportunity Gordon Brown missed in being a late and possibly rather reluctant convert to electoral reform.
But it is also worth remembering that, days before the election, the Conservative Party based its election pitch as a campaign against a hung parliament, and against electoral reform.
Further, David Cameron himself said this:
It’s now all becoming clear — the great plan of Nick Clegg’s is becoming clear — he’s only interested in one thing and that is changing our electoral system so that we have a permanent hung parliament, we have a permanent coalition, we never have strong and decisive government. That’s what he wants to do — it’s now becoming clear he wants to hold the whole country to ransom . . . just to benefit the Liberal Democrats.
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