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Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill (Money) (No. 3)

I do not consider more than a fifth of the vote to be a small number of votes. It does not follow that a party in second or third place is automatically in government. The hon. Gentleman says that we do not have a tradition of grand coalitions, but that is because we have first past the post. Under a different system, we would have a grand coalition fairly often, because of the similarity of view on many subjects between the two parties.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
505 c829 
Session
2009-10
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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