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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/clegg-assures-over-lib-dem-future.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Nick Clegg says the Tories and the Lib Dems will fight the next election as separate parties" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-clegg-assures-over-lib-dem-future.jpg" alt="Nick Clegg says the Tories and the Lib Dems will fight the next election as separate parties"/></a></p>
<p>Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has insisted that the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives will fight the next general election as separate parties.</p>
<p>The Lib Dem leader said that the fact that the two parties had entered into a coalition together did not mean that they were &#8220;joined at the hip&#8221;.</p>
<p>He acknowledged, however, that he and David Cameron would be defending a &#8220;shared record&#8221; at the polls and that the debate between them would be &#8220;more civilised&#8221; than normal.</p>
<p>&#8220;We will fight the next general election as separate and independent parties,&#8221; he told BBC1&#8217;s The Andrew Marr Show.</p>
<p>&#8220;Coalition is not a pact, it is not a merger, it doesn&#8217;t mean that you become joined at the hip. It means that you retain your separate identities.</p>
<p>&#8220;Clearly we will be not only setting out different and separate visions for the future but, yes, we will also be drawing on a shared record of what we sought to achieve during this five-year parliament.</p>
<p>&#8220;Clearly on that we will speak about it in terms which will be more temperate and more civilised than would normally be the case. I don&#8217;t think that that means we have to paper over our identity during the course of this parliament.&#8221;</p>
<p>His comments come amid anger among some Tory MPs at what they saw as a &#8220;soft-pedalling&#8221; by their party in the recent Oldham East and Saddleworth by election campaign in order to prevent a collapse of the Lib Dem vote.</p>
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