Coalition Politics Dept: How well it will succeed, though, will depend on the success of the “proper and full coalition” announced by Mr. Cameron, 43, between an ideologically divided Conservative Party, which failed to receive a majority vote in last Thursday’s election, and a centrist, generally left leaning Liberal Democrat Party. As if to drive home the novelty of this new, almost German style cross bench unity, Mr. Cameron delivered an acceptance speech Tuesday that tried to balance right wing values with pledges to maintain the social safety net: “I want to make sure that my government always looks after the elderly, the frail, the poorest in our country,” he said. With that, Britain saw a change in governing vision and ideology, the first of its kind in 13 years, that will transform politics in dramatic and influential ways – a stark fusion of the political culture of left and right. Unlike the New Labour project that Mr. Brown and his prime ministerial predecessor and archrival Tony Blair launched together in the mid 1990s, this new Conservative politics will be determined less by a drive to remake the nature of the Conservative Party – though Mr. Cameron has tried to do that – as much as by the vicissitudes of coalition politics. As
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