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Mr. Cameron also said the Liberal Democrats will be represented at all levels of government.

In London, Gordon Brown came under pressure from the Liberal Democrats for failing to obstruct the Kraft deal.

But a third party, the Liberal Democrats, are turning this election into a three-horse race.

He wants British voters to see multiparty rule as effective, not weak, and to see the Liberal Democrats as a sober party of government.

It would be a pity for Japan if the Liberal Democrats gave up without a fight, however.

Though the Liberal Democrats do not rule out cutting the NHS budget, both the main parties see eye to eye about money.

The Liberal Democrats had made much in the election of their plan to raise allowances to take more people out of income tax.

But hostility to nuclear power runs deep among the Liberal Democrats, and it resonates with both wings of the party.

The fault-line also runs between Conservatives and other Conservatives, and between the Tories as a whole and the Liberal Democrats.

It helps that, as part of their deal with the Liberal Democrats, the Tories ditched their quixotic bid to repatriate powers from the EU.

Instead all the buzz since the first television debate has been about the surge of the Liberal Democrats led by Nick Clegg.

Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, promises "change that works for you" .

And the Liberal Democrats have warned of a potential increase in the buying of illegal foreign cigarettes.

In Britain's political spectrum the Liberal Democrats are the keenest Europeans, even wishing to join Europe's single currency, the euro.

Polls show support for the Liberal Democrats may be soft. Many voters are still waiting to make up their minds about Mr. Clegg.

But he says the Liberal Democrats left policymaking to aging politicians out of touch with the needs of the people.

For those reasons, I aim to form a proper and full coalition between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.

The Liberal Democrats have five or six impressive frontbenchers: not a bad ratio, given their overall numbers, but not an abundance either.

He praised David Cameron for seeing that the "national interest" demanded coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

It emerged that Mr Cowan, reportedly a confirmed pagan, had been expelled by the Liberal Democrats in 2004.

The Liberal Democrats, Britain's third party, are the obvious candidates for coalition-making.

Only Vince Cable, financial spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, argues for splitting up banks and making them lend more.

The Conservatives, with the support of the Liberal Democrats, their coalition partners, thought they could do better.

For the Liberal Democrats, changing the first-past-the-post voting system that discriminates against them has long been the holy grail.

Disenfranchisement is the problem, not apathy -- perhaps if young people thought the Liberal Democrats had a chance, they'd go out and vote?

The Tories and the Liberal Democrats are fleshing out the civil libertarianism they promised in opposition.

Or the Liberal Democrats, who seek to revamp the electoral system, could demand revisions that would change British politics for years.

If university fees are giving the Liberal Democrats sleepless nights, in time prison reform may similarly disturb the Conservatives.

His Tories remain in the lead, but the limelight belongs to a third party, the Liberal Democrats.

The main parties have other potential allies, of course, not least the Liberal Democrats.

The Liberal Democrats, Britain's third-biggest political party, have called for stiffer rules for "non-dom" residents.

And the Liberal Democrats, who opposed the Iraq war, may decide by the election to back withdrawal from Afghanistan.

But Hosokawa managed to pass an electoral reform law that broke the Liberal Democrats' hold on power.

The Liberal Democrats also want to reduce the corporate-tax rate, paying for it by removing "complex reliefs" .

The move was greeted by support from the Liberal Democrats, who govern in coalition with Mr Cameron's Conservatives.

On August 16th the Liberal Democrats called for an independent inquiry into exam standards.

The Liberal Democrats are still a useful check on his instincts: . . .

The Liberal Democrats' general-election manifesto pledged to abolish them.

Suitably for the party that is the traditional home of the green-minded, the Liberal Democrats have cornered the market in rhetoric.

Britain's first television debate, on April 15th, was followed by a ten-point swing to the Liberal Democrats.

The Liberal Democrats would have them locally elected to give them more clout.

For those reasons, I aim to form a proper and full coalition between thes and the Liberal Democrats.

The Liberal Democrats, in this scenario, would agree not to vote down key government policies such as the budget.

He has more obviously in common with the similarly 40-ish, six-foot-tall leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg.

We no longer understand what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

The DPJ won more than 300 seats against 120 for the Liberal Democrats, who've governed Japan for more than five decades.

In some ways, miraculous to report, the Liberal Democrats have the most mature position on the deficit.

Only one party [the Liberal Democrats] made student debt an issue, and they are a long way from coming to power. ' Fiona, 25, from London.

Both Labour and the Liberal Democrats want to wait until 2011, arguing that an early start could derail the recovery.

But here's the thing. Students and the wider British public shouldn't be mad at Clegg or the Liberal Democrats.

Ms Thornberry has a majority of only 484 votes, and the seat is the Liberal Democrats' top Labour target in England.

The Conservative party won 306 seats while Labour and the Liberal Democrats got 258 and 57 seats respectively.

In addition, the Labor Party and the Liberal Democrats each received 255 and 61 seats.

Labour and the Liberal Democrats deplore a plan to encourage local licensing boards to ban off-licence sales to people under 21 years old.

The bonhomie has gone, but the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have together begun remaking the state

Only in Newcastle North do the Liberal Democrats, today's self-styled champions of the people, stand even a modest chance of victory;

Lord Ashdown, leader of the Liberal Democrats 1988-1999