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Everything you need to know about the Queen's Speech 2013 in five minutes

Queen's Speech 2013: Right wing and controversial

This year's Queen's Speech is going to be right-wing, controversial and could - while everyone is distracted - even change the country. Here's a run-down of what we're expecting.

Queen's speech 2013: Reactions

Everything you need to know about the Tory EU rebellion in five minutes

Queen's Speech 2013 analysis: Time running out for real reforms

Cameron: No EU referendum without Tory majority

Cameron: 'To get an EU referendum you need to vote for a Tory-only government.'

David Cameron suggested the only way to get an EU referendum is through a 'Tory-only government'.

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Podcast: Boundary changes fury

A divorce on the cards? Boundary changes row has brought the coalition marriage to a new low

This week's boundary changes defeat is, surely, the moment the Conservatives learned to hate the Lib Dems.

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Clegg provides coalition's first 'we got it wrong' moment

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg gets "self-critical"

The coalition government was wrong to have cut capital spending as quickly as it did after the 2010 general election, Nick Clegg has admitted.

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Poisoned government: Ministers' war with civil servants reaches new depths

Francis Maude outside No 10, now - like the rest of Whitehall - the scene of bitter fighting between senior civil servants and ministers

The mutual contempt between coalition ministers and their senior civil servants is now so bad it is putting the effectiveness of government at risk, a think-tank has warned.

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Boundary changes: The coalition's first mini-divorce confirmed

David Cameron and Nick Clegg have formally agreed to go to war in the Commons over boundary changes while keeping the rest of the coalition intact.

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The week in review: The omniterrible coalition

Cameron and Clegg's promises haven't all held true

'Omnishambles' is sooo last year, so this week we're offering your choice of words. Omnimess, omnimuddle, omnifiasco all seem to fit the bill for 2013.

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Podcast: Why politics will be more interesting in 2013

All will become clear. Just keep listening

Or, why politics in 2013 is going to be like an episode of 24…

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Coalition's childcare boost under threat

Child care plans were a central part of the midterm review

The coalition's plans to help working parents with universal childcare costs are already running into trouble.

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Review: There's a method to Clegg's LBC madness

Man of the people? Desperate times call for desperate measures

Nick Clegg is making history. This is nothing new: the coalition is a historic experiment, and it is all his fault. Which is why he's having to do this sort of show.

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PMQs verdict: A midterm shambles – but Cameron keeps grinning

MPs cheerfully went about their business of doing each other down in the first PMQs of the new year

The fact MPs were sitting down and stationary for the first prime minister's questions is not going to stop this writer claiming they all had a spring in their step.

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Coalition braces for broken promises shame

Ed Miliband has dismissed David Cameron as a "PR man who can't even do a relaunch" in PMQs, as the coalition faces another shambles over the release of its audit of broken pledges later.

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'Total chaos' as second peer quits government

Jonathan Marland is stepping down from government, just two days after Strathclyde's exit

David Cameron faces mockery from the opposition in prime minister's questions this lunchtime, after being hit by a second ministerial resignation in the Lords this week.

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Their constitutional record of failure won't stop the coalition's meddling instincts

Nick Clegg and David Cameron's time in government has been a controversial period for the UK constitution

This is a government which has not stopped to think twice before meddling with the rules of the game.

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Midterm review sketch: Empty document fails to hide coalition tensions

A rare event, these days: David Cameron and Nick Clegg hold a press conference, for real journalists

Whereas the Rose Garden was charming and novel, we have now grown familiar with the tedious, forced bonhomie which now prevails between these two men.

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Two more years? Cameron and Clegg reload the coalition

Nick Clegg and David Cameron will underline their "unwavering" commitment to the coalition

A wave of new reforms and a renewed commitment to coalition government form the backbone of David Cameron and Nick Clegg's midterm review, unveiled this afternoon.

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Midterm review: A missed opportunity?

Midterm review will help, but is nowhere near as effective as it could have been

The midterm review will give the coalition's longevity prospects a shot in the arm, but the art of multi-party government in Whitehall still has some way to go before it becomes truly refined.

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Comment: Cameron and Clegg's coalition myths need uncovering

Cameron and Clegg are using the midterm review opportunity to once again grandstand about the virtues of their approach

This midterm review is littered with half-truths tailored to help David Cameron and Nick Clegg cling on to power. They are complicit in the same deceits: what better reason to continue to stick together?

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The week in review: Have an unhappy new year

With not even an Olympic glimmer to lift the spirit, 2013 threatens to be a depressing affair.

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Lib Dem 'anchor' to weigh Tories down

Nick Clegg will ensure the Lib Dems remain an "anchor" on Conservative right-wingers

Liberal Democrats will continue to defy Conservative right-wingers by keeping the coalition in the centre of British politics, Nick Clegg has pledged.

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'Every trick in the book': It's Clegg 2.0

Clegg is keen to defend his party's record in government

Nick Clegg was accused of trying "every trick in the book" to distance himself from his record today, after he made a keynote speech describing the Liberal Democrats as the only genuine party of the middle ground.

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Nick Clegg speech in full

Clegg's speech distances his party from Conservatives

Read Nick Clegg's welfare speech in full here

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Clegg's big election pitch: We're keepin' it real

Clegg chit-chats with a policeman on duty outside No 10. Photo: Political Pictures

Nick Clegg will paint his party as pragmatic occupiers of the centre-ground in a major speech on Monday setting out the Liberal Democrats' platform for the 2015 general election.

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