Coalition: The Inside Story of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government

Coalition is the definitive insider account of the historic Conservative - Lib Dem coalition from its birth in 2010 through to its demise in May 2015

It reveals how key decisions were made, lays bare the often explosive divisions between and within the coalition parties, and explores candidly the personalities and positions of the key players on both sides of the government. Finally, it makes a thorough assessment of the government’s successes and failures.

David Laws has written what deserves to become the definitive account of the 2010-15 coalition government. - Paddy Ashdown

There are few - even from within my own party - whose inside story of the 2010-15 coalition I would trust more than David Laws’s. - Matthew Parris

This book makes the politics of coalition come alive. It is well written, with a great deal of humour and a nice eye for detail. […] This is an important work that goes a long way towards explaining our contemporary political predicament. I cannot recommend it too highly. - Peter Oborne, New Statesman

Packed with remarkable verbatim accounts of the arguments between the men at the top: David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg. Sunday Times