14-05-2015 20:36 via feeds.theguardian.com

Lib Dem destruction kills appetite for coalitions, says Norman Lamb

Party leadership contender, who faces showdown with Tim Farron, says smaller parties will not want to share government under the current electoral systemBritain’s smaller political parties will avoid forming future coalitions under the current “first-past-the-post” electoral system, Liberal Democrat leadership contender Norman Lamb says, following his party’s hammering at the polls.In a searingly frank assessment of the “massive experiment” of the coalition years, the former care min
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