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23 March 2010

Fixed terms wouldn’t prevent a second election

Nick Clegg is wrong to hope that fixed terms in office would prevent another election.

By George Eaton

There’s something rather cynical about the government’s apparent support for fixed-term parliaments. As with Gordon Brown’s deathbed conversion to electoral reform, it’s all part of Labour’s pre-election “love-bombing” of the Liberal Democrats.

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