Two Conservative MPs have gone over to the Liberal Democrats.
The Conservatives lost a lot of ground to the Liberal Democrats at the election.
Welfare reform was not a big theme in the Liberal Democrats' election manifesto and Steve Webb, their minister in the department, is on the party's left.
The Liberal Democrats, Britain's third party, have similar plans, with the addition of a "pupil premium" -extra cash for each poor child a school admits.
Rounding the numbers, in 2005 Labour emerged with one MP for each 27,000 votes cast and the Conservatives with one for each 44,000 (the Liberal Democrats fared worst, with one for each 97,000).
The Liberal Democrats are silent.
He praised David Cameron for seeing that the "national interest" demanded coalition with the Liberal Democrats.
The third, championed by the Liberal Democrats, was to get more students from poor families into university, despite the initially daunting higher fees.
Some will suspect that the main reason for delay is to pander to the Liberal Democrats, who are generally much less keen on maintaining the deterrent than their Conservative coalition partners.
The Liberal Democrats have hardened their opposition.
Leftish voters, in particular, are furious with the country's third party, the Liberal Democrats, for sharing power with Tories.
They cannot believe that, while Tory MPs have had to make way for Liberal Democrats in ministerial posts, almost all of Mr Cameron's advisers were kept on after the election.
That would undo years of reforms introduced by the Liberal Democrats to resuscitate Japan's long-stagnant economy.
Nick Clegg, the personable leader of the Liberal Democrats, likes to joke that he cannot help being roughly six feet tall, male, white and in his early 40s—like Mr Cameron.
In the aftermath of their humbling at the hands of voters on May 5th, the Liberal Democrats had hoped for a period of quiet recuperation.
the Social and Liberal Democrats(formed in 1988 from the merging of the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party )
It is not hard to find Conservative MPs, let alone Liberal Democrats, who are more scathing about the City than Labour's shadow chancellor.
