d’Ancona reveals that the Prime Minister has already started questioning whether a second coalition would be backed by his party. He writes: “How far would the elastic of Conservative patience stretch? Would the Lib Dem membership even consider it? Yet it was in the nature of the turbulent political landscape, so different from the New Labour era, to think about long shots.” The book makes clear that any chance of a tie-up between Labour and the Lib Dems looks unlikely as long as Ed Miliband remains Labour leader.