EVEN if polls and betting odds merely reflect fickle and fleeting public opinion, rather than predicting eventual outcomes, there must be a few red-faced political scientists and smiling bookies around at present.
Be that as it may, perhaps the era of not loving coalitions, at least in peace-time, is over.
However, British politics will be poorer for Evan Harris’s temporary, or permanent, departure.
DAVID DIMENT, Riverside Close, Oxford
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