Lib Dem minister says his party would go into coalition with Labour

Ed Davey, Liberal Democrat MP and current Energy Secretary in the coalition government, has said that he thinks Labour will be the biggest party in 2015 and, if this is the case, he hopes the Lib Dems will go into coalition with them.

It’s reported that Davey, speaking at a conference in East London, had said that if Labour failed to win a majority but were the biggest party in 2015, the Lib Dems would use their experience with the Tories to make a deal with them:

 “If we were negotiating again and I hope we will be, but probably with the Labour Party this time … that would be my prediction, I think because we are used to coalition politics, we would negotiate even better.”

This isn’t the first time the idea of a Lib/Lab coalition has been floated; last September Nick Clegg said a partnership between the two parties was a plausible.

But while Lib Dems – whose polling last month was at an all-time low – might be eager to get into government via any means, Ed Miliband and senior Labour MPs have stated time and again that they’re focussed on wining a majority in 2015.

So while the Lib Dems are trying to figure out what deals they can make to get back into government next year, the Labour leadership is clear: they’re going to put all their energies into showing the electorate that Labour are the political party they should vote for because they’ll make the country a more equal one.