david cameron and nick clague have talked today, we're told. what are cameron 's-- what are the prospects for the tories and liberal democrats to do a deal and come up with a coalition government. >> the real problem is that the british people didn't speak, they mumbled and they shuffled their feet and they couldn't really make a decision. and what's extraordinary is that gordon brown should have lost by a greater amount than he did. because it's the worst economic recession for 80 years. an exhausted government after 13 years in office. but labour is not down and out. what's remarkable, if you look at the vote is that the tory vote, the conserve-- conservative vote shank as you went north up the country and virtually disappeared into scotland so a pure conservative government would not represent the country as a whole. the conservative was need support from the liberal democrats. labour democrats would have over 50% of the vote. they would have some kind of legitimacy in that sense. the real problem now is that the terms on the liberal democra