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8 May 2010updated 27 Sep 2015 2:21am

Cameron lashed out at Clegg for “holding the whole country to ransom” on electoral reform

Worth remembering where we were before the “new politics” of a hung parliament.

By James Macintyre

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.

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