Labour Party attempts to split coalition

Ed Miliband, a candidate to be the next Labour leader, has today attempted to separate the coalition Conservative and Liberal Democrat government with claims that the Labour Party never made a promise regarding the alternative voting system. It was assumed that during negotiations between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, Labour and Liberal Democrats and discussions with party members that the Liberal Democrats had been looking to jump into bed with Labour.

However, the accusation that David Cameron effectively "lied" to Conservative party members is a very serious accusation and one which Ed Miliband will need to back up with cold hard facts. While negotiations between the various parties, in talks to form a coalition government at the time, were very secretive and very long-winded there is now some debate as to whether each and every party was being "totally truthful" to the other.

Quite why this has taken months to come outs remains to be seen but these accusations, tabled ahead of the Labour Party leadership battle, are obviously designed to cause as much friction between the coalition partners as possible. This comes at a time when David Cameron and Nick Clegg are struggling to hold together the coalition in the face of inter-party disputes across a number of different subject matters.