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Tories and Lib Dems to hold more power-sharing talks
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| Contributor | particleman |
| Last Edited | particleman May 09, 2010 12:04am |
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| Media | TV News - British Broadcasting Corporation BBC News |
| News Date | Sunday, May 9, 2010 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Conservative and Lib Dem negotiators will meet at 1100 BST - after leaders David Cameron and Nick Clegg met on Saturday for private 70-minute talks. There will also be a meeting of Conservative MPs at 1800 BST on Monday, the BBC understands.
Gordon Brown remains prime minister and has offered the Lib Dems talks if no deal is reached with the Conservatives. A Lib Dem spokesman said Mr Clegg and Mr Brown spoke by telephone on Saturday night at the prime minister's request, describing the conversation as "amicable".
Meanwhile, David Cameron has told Tory supporters that the negotiations will "inevitably involve compromise".
The talks between Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg at Admiralty House in Westminster, on Saturday night, were described by both sides as "constructive and amicable" and followed an earlier brief conversation at the VE day commemoration event in London.
Meanwhile, Labour frontbencher Peter Hain said it was "clear" that the Lib Dem leader and Mr Brown had "a lot in common" on the need for electoral reform - Labour has offered a referendum on changing the voting system. But Labour backbencher John Mann called for Mr Brown to step down as Labour leader before the party conference in September - arguing his position "rules out the credibility of a Lib/Lab pact".
Scotland's First Minister, SNP leader Alex Salmond, called on the Lib Dems to join a "progressive alliance" involving Labour, the SNP and Plaid Cymru. |
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