Negotiations

It has been an extraordinary day with the detailed talks between the LibDem and Tory negotiating teams, another one-to-one meeting between Nick Clegg and David Cameron, and a meeting between Nick and Gordon Brown. Most commentators are saying that a 'rainbow coalition' with Labour, LibDems and the minority parties, is arithmetically and politically a non-starter, so the options are narrowing. The LibDem peers are meeting tomorrow at 11.00 and presumably we will get some idea of what's been going on behind the scenes.