DAILY MAIL COMMENT: A fine start, but the tensions are showing
Daily MailA fine start, but the tensions are showing The flirting was less outrageous than when they stood together in the Downing Street rose garden seven months ago, laughing at each other’s jokes. Problematic partners: David Cameron and Nick Clegg must guard against missteps like Vince Cable's outspoken comments Indeed, it does great credit to Mr Cameron’s iron will and Mr Clegg’s political maturity that the pair have kept the Coalition intact, give or take a wobble or two, through tests that might have been expected to tear it apart. In so doing, he’s caused a huge headache for Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg, who can only be weakened by the decision to transfer some of the Business Secretary’s powers to the Tory Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt. Inevitably, many Liberal Democrats will see the move as an attempt by the Tories to pacify Rupert Murdoch, after Mr Cable’s ill-advised boast that he’d ‘declared war’ on the media magnate and was determined to block his bid to buy full control of BSkyB.
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