Unit 2: The Coalition & the Constitution

This is a really interesting lecture by Professor Vernon Bogdanor on the Coalition and the Constitution Professor Vernon Bogdanor, long a student of coalition governments, has been looking at the implications for the British constitution. He drew interesting comparisons between historical coalitions and our current situation. Bogdanor argued that many coalition governments had been formed out of fear. For instance, the current economic stresses at home and abroad caused the Liberal Democrats to form a coalition with the Conservatives and abandon their previous policies and adopt the Conservative policy of immediate and sustained deep spending cuts.