Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia TYMOSHENKO announced on Wednesday that she had formed a new parliamentary coalition with allies of President Viktor YUSHCHENKO. Ukraine's parliament had been without a governing coalition since September, when the previous coalition broke down after YUSHCHENKO's party withdrew from the coalition in protest of TYMOSHENKO's support of an opposition measu...

Coalition politics may have made a historic breakthrough at Westminster, but could an equally convention-shattering coalition be in prospect in Scotland - with a tie-up betwee

Carwyn Jones on Wales Home today: “I am not the candidate who was opposed to the coalition, but nor am I the candidate whom our coalition partners would prefer.” I thought it was well known that Carwyn was not against the coalition? Indeed was he not the candidate that was briefing against his own party in favour of it?

The coalition has had a bad day today. It has been knocked all over the park following the IFS report that labeled the Budget regressive. Now, I’m sure the coalition will say that if it had to pick a day to take a hammering, one towards the end of August would be what they would have chosen. But I think there are five lessons that the coalition needs to learn from today if it is to navigate ...

The Coalition Government has had its fair share of tensions over major policy areas, including most notably and most recently welfare reform and the future of Trident. Despite being a coalition, the tensions have not been between the two parties in coalition; rather, they have been along shifting lines that cut-across parties. On welfare, for

How much respective influence have the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives had on the Coalition Government’s policies? Lib Dem blogger Duncan Stott has crunched the data from the Guardian’s Datablog: The most objective way of assessing the coalition at this early stage is the coalition agreement. An analysis of this text and the roots behind

What do members of our readers' panel think of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition?

Sir John Major yesterday in the Daily Telegraph floated the idea that the Tory / Liberal coalition should continue after the next general election, and could become a permanent merger. The interesting aspect of the Coalition is that, as the Telegraph observes Some Tory MPs are privately unhappy with the coalition agreement, feeling it dilutes traditional Tory policies

Going into a coalition government with another party was always going to be hard, particularly with the Tories! It feels to me like a trip to the dentist. Something I know is the right thing to do for the long term, but very painful in the short term. I supported the coalition. Given that I

Some of you have written in wanting me to cut loose from the Coalition and speak out for doctrinal purity. Others have written in urging me to support the Coalition. I wish the Coalition every success. I have been arguing for months that this country needed