article_snippet.sent: The Liberal Democrats have admitted The Liberal Democrats are on course to lose at least 20 MPs, but claim this could still be enough to put The Liberal Democrats back in power.
article_snippet.sent: The senior Lib Dem, closely involved in Party's election strategy, said the campaign's focus was increasingly on between 10 and 15 marginal seats - some held by Party and a few targets - with other constituencies either assessed as safe or effectively written off.
article_snippet.sent: There are now basically two possible outcomes to this election - we can either get a minority government or a coalition with the Lib Dems in it.'
article_snippet.sent: the Lib Dems won 57 seats in the 2010 election but have been hit by a slump in popularity after forming the coalition government with the Conservatives.
article_snippet.sent: the Lib Dems have built up a reputation as formidable campaigners in by-election contests, including in the Hampshire seat which the Lib Dems held following the resignation of disgraced former cabinet minister Chris Huhne, despite a Ukip surge.
article_snippet.sent: The alternatives to a coalition involving the Lib Dems were a Labour-SNP alliance 'saddling our children with the dead weight of debts from this generation' or a 'hapless David Cameron administration dancing to the tune of Ukip, the DUP and - most chillingly and worryingly of all - his own MPs on the right wing of the Conservative Party'.
article_snippet.sent: our will cut less than the Conservative Party', we will borrow less than Labour.
article_snippet.sent: our have provided a heart to a government with the Conservative Party', just as our would provide a brain to a government with the Conservative Party' on the economy.'