Islam Times - Coalition contract partly broken: Clegg

Islam Times - Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said part of the coalition “contract” has been broken as disagreement between the two ruling parties in the country continues to grow.

“The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform, and as a result, part of our contract has been broken”, said Clegg referring to Conservatives’ opposition to Liberal Democrats’ proposed reforms for the House of Lords.

This comes as Liberal Democrats intend to oppose Prime Minister David Cameron’s plan to redraw constituency boundaries for having a more powerful House of Commons after their plan for reform of the Lords has been aborted.

Senior Lib Dems said they will oppose Tory MPs’ urge for redrawing constituency boundaries in retaliation against Tories’ rebellion last month over Lib Dems’ proposal to reform the House of Lords, the state-run BBC reported.

Maintaining that the House of Lords is undemocratic, Liberal Democrats aimed to make 80 percent of peers elected and to halve the number of members to 450.

Meanwhile, the conservatives intend to change the current boundaries, which are widely believed to help Labor party more than any other party.

According to Tim Montgomerie, editor of the Conservativehome website, Labour can get a parliamentary majority with just a 3 percent lead in the opinion polls while the Conservatives need an 11 percent lead to get the same results.

Montgomerie also asserted that losing the constituency boundary changes would be a “huge blow” to the Conservatives during the upcoming election.