Cameron/Clegg: "This is what new politics looks like"

Scott Sinclair
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Prime Minister David Cameron stood side by side with his deputy Nick Clegg in the Downing Street garden this afternoon and told Britain: This is what new politics looks like.

The two figureheads of the country's first coalition Government since the Second World War spoke for the first time as "colleagues, not rivals". "We are announcing a new politics," Cameron said, "a politics where the national interest is more important than the party interest. This is a remarkable and very welcome day." Cameron and Clegg, who stressed they still represent "different parties", spoke repeatedly of the importance of forming a government that would be "stable" for Britain. "This is so much better than the alternative," Cameron added, saying the two parties had been "in...

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