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12 May 2010

The NS Interview: Shirley Williams

“Nick’s surge was too soon. The soufflé had time to stop rising.”

By Alyssa McDonald

You’ve spoken out against a Lib-Con coalition. Could that still be on the cards?
I don’t think there’s going to be a coalition. There might be an arrangement in which we would not vote down initial Tory Budget proposals, but Nick Clegg has been pretty resolute on Europe. When the Tories put a ring fence around that, I think they knocked out the pros­pect of a coalition.

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