Inside The Room: The Coalition Talks (Part 2)
Political Currency
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🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
After two days of negotiations, the Conservatives had begun to worry a deal was slipping through their fingers. So what shifted to put David Cameron in Number 10? Danny Alexander is back with Ed and George to relive the five tense days in 2010 that led to a coalition government between the Tories and the Lib Dems.
In our second instalment, Ed and George grill Nick Clegg’s former Chief of Staff and lead negotiator about the moment he told Gordon Brown he had to go, and why the Lib Dems decided to join forces with the Tories. The former insiders also discuss what Keir Starmer, Rishi Sunak and Ed Davey can learn from these tense negotiations.
Inside The Room is a new series from Political Currency, where Ed and George dive deep into the big moments of political history. They will draw back the curtain on the drama and emotions that have fuelled the decisions made at the highest level, and explore the lasting effects those choices have had today.
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Executive Producers: Dino Sofos and Ellie Clifford
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| 1:09.6 | Visit gsk.com to learn more. Welcome back to our special episode of Political Coency Inside the Room, The Coalition Talks talks in our last episode we walk you |
| 1:35.2 | through the first couple of days after the May 2010 election a hung parliament |
| 1:40.5 | nobody's got a majority what what's to be done, can a coalition be formed, is the next |
| 1:46.3 | Prime Minister going to be David Cameron or is Gordon Brown going to stay in office and we've |
| 1:52.0 | been discussing that with the help of Danny Alexander who was the |
| 1:55.4 | leader of the Lib Dem negotiating team, Nick Clegg's chief of staff, absolutely in every room. That's right. So if you remember when we left you, we were at the weekend after the general election. |
| 2:08.0 | The Conservatives, myself as part of that negotiating team, have been talking to the Liberal Democrats, formal talks were underway, |
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