Peers have vowed to debate around the clock ‘night after night after night’ this week in order to meet a timetable to hold a referendum on electoral reform this May.  David Cameron’s bedside manner is breathtakingly self-assured. The Prime Minister warned that unless drastic action is taken, the National Health Service is doomed: “There’s no quiet life option.”  Simon Hughes, the Liberal Democrat deputy leader and Coalition education spokesman, has said he could support Labour in opposition to Government funding cuts.  Ed Miliband described the Liberal Democrats as "tragic" on Saturday as he called on them to join forces with his party.  The Tory Right is wilfully blind to the fact that it is getting most of what it wants from a Coalition that it hates, argues Matthew d'Ancona.  Why we are having a referendum on AV? How does the voting system work? And is it fair? Tim Montgomerie reports.  Alarm bells are ringing for Nick Clegg in the latest episode of our Westminster sitcom, by Iain Hollingshead.  Ed Miliband has appealed to disaffected Liberal Democrats to work with Labour against the cuts agenda being implemented by the coalition Government.  Telegraph View: The result needs to be seen in the unusual context in which the contest was fought.  Nick Clegg has insisted that his party can reclaim the Oldham East and Saddleworth constituency from Labour.  As the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election results sink in representatives from all three major parties have their say.  Debbie Abrahams extends Labour's majority over the Lib Dems from just 103 votes at the general election last May to 3,558.  Nick Clegg has said that he is pleased with the Liberal Democrats "strong result" in difficult circumstances in the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election.  If Clegg takes care to remember he is running a marathon, not a sprint, then the third party may prove its worth, says Neil O'Brien.  Vince Cable is not amused. When the Opposition tried to bait the Business Secretary, he growled like a bear who considers this sport has gone on for far too long.  David Cameron and Ed Miliband have become locked in an abusive relationship. Each Wednesday they meet in the Commons to hurl insults at each other.  It can be difficult being in a room full of people who earn so much less than oneself. But Bob Diamond, the chief executive of Barclays, appeared to enjoy the attempts of the Treasury committee of MPs to rough him up.  Labour have been accused of "playing dirty" in the Oldham East & Saddleworth by-election just days before the ballot is due to take place.  Pre-charge detention in terrorist cases to be cut to 14 days.  David Laws, the former Lib Dem Cabinet minister, has been put in charge of Nick Clegg’s “Alarm Clock Britain” agenda, seeking policies that will make life better for low- and middle-income families.
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