http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10483841.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10489088.stm
The key issue of electoral reform will definitely be the making or breaking of this Coalition.
What the result of the referendum - due to be held next May - will mean for the durability of this Government must, surely, be a complete unknown.
A referendum on AV, the Alternative Vote electoral system, was central to the Liberal Democrats agreeing to be part of a Government with David Cameron and the Conservatives.
However, with so many Conservative backbenchers traditionally vehemently opposed to any kind of proportional voting system, and with Mr Cameron prepared to vote against a change to the current first-past-the-post system, the survival of the Coalition, which was at best, wobbly from the start anyway, looks to be on even more shaky ground now.
With both partners in the Coalition so far apart on this issue, it is impossible to see how it can possibly survive.
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