Cable considers a coalition split before the next general election
THE COALITION could well be dismantled in advance of the next general election to allow the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives to compete against each other, business secretary Vince Cable said yesterday.
While he said there has not yet been “a great deal of thought” into the last days of the coalition, he said there would “of course” be a split “because we will be competing as a separate party with a separate manifesto, and I’m sure the Tories think the same way”.
“I think everybody involved knows that before the next general election the two parties will have to establish their own separate platform and identity, but how that disengagement takes place and over what time period is very much an issue for the future,” he told BBC Radio 5.