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Your support makes all the difference.A joint effort by David Cameron and Nick Clegg to draw a line under the Coalition's recent troubles was overshadowed by infighting between their parties.
Simon Hughes, the Liberal Democrats' deputy leader, attacked Conservative MPs who oppose the Coalition. "It may be uncomfortable for the Tories, some of whom think they're born to rule, but, unfortunately, the electorate didn't agree with them," he told BBC Radio 4's World At One.
His attack came after the MPs demanded a traditional Tory agenda and urged Mr Cameron, pictured, to stop giving in to Mr Clegg. About 20 Tory MPs issued an alternative programme for government and urged the Prime Minister to make fewer policy concessions to the Lib Dems.
Such tensions threaten to eclipse a joint appearance today by Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg, which is being seen as a renewal of the Coalition vows they took two years ago. The two leaders are expected to visit a manufacturing firm in Essex and pledge to get on with repairing the nation's broken economy.
The Prime Minister and his deputy are united in resisting calls for a lurch to the right or left, and will stress their commitment to govern from the centre ground.
Today Mr Cameron will stress that he has heard the voters' message in last week's elections. "I'm listening. I'm leading. I get it," he will say. "There are no closed minds, no closed doors in Downing Street."
Mr Clegg will say: "We are taking the tough choices not because we want to, but because we have to."
The alternative Tory programme, published on the ConservativeHome website, includes: a referendum on Britain's relationship with the EU; an expansion of grammar schools; new trade union laws to make it harder to call strikes; a British Bill of Rights; capital gains tax reduced from 28 to 20 per cent; and taking more workers out of the 40p tax band.
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