article_snippet: ’ Electoral deals between two or more parties can take various guises.
article_snippet: A full-scale coalition is a power-sharing deal of the kind struck by David Cameron and Nick Clegg, with a shared programme and ministers from different parties.
article_snippet: One step down from a coalition is an arrangement called ‘confidence and supply’.
article_snippet: In exchange for concessions to That interests, a smaller party agrees to back a larger one in key Commons votes.
article_snippet: But, with the possibility of a power-sharing deal in sight, this principle has been ditched.