Even with 1 year of its allotted 5-year term still to go, it is already possible to judge that the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition formed in May 2010 has been a success.
First, and contrary to the predictions of many political observers when it was formed and in the years afterwards, it has survived, and looks likely to survive until the end of its term. It has done so in large part because the prime minister and his deputy have succeeded in adapting the UK constitutional framework to serve a coalition, and to ensure that on the whole, and despite occasional periods of fractiousness, the past 4 years have been a period of relative political stability.
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