The Uneasy Alliance
'I think it's been very damaging for the Alliance that the two Parliamentary parties have cooperated so little.'
(WILLIAM WALLACE , Vice-Chairman,
Liberal Standing Committee)
One year after the alliance between the Liberals and the SDF was so enthusiastically endorsed at their annual assembly, leading Liberals are now voicing their doubts. As the Liberal Assembly opens in Bournemouth, Fred Emery reports on the growing controversy within the party over their relationship with the SDP and, in the aftermath of the Gower By-Election, he talks to both
The Rt Hon David Steel , mp and The Rt Hon Roy Jenkins , MP about whether they can recover the momentum that brought their early success.
Producer TIM SHAWCROSS Deputy editor TOM BOWER Editor GEORGE CAREY