article_snippet: Prime Minister David Cameron and his Conservative party won the election, but not by enough to go into government alone.
article_snippet: For the past five years his's been governing in coalition with the UK's third party, the Liberal Democrats.
article_snippet: And their leader, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, has mostly backed Cameron in Parliamentary debates against the opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband.
article_snippet: Part of the problem is the British electorate, which has changed since 2010, boosting the fortunes of some of the country's former political outliers.
article_snippet: The rightwing UKIP, which has pledged to take the UK out of the European Union, has made massive gains in the past year -- mostly at the expense of Cameron's Conservatives.
article_snippet: In Scotland, the September independence referendum (which narrowly failed) so reinvigorated the Scottish National Party that the Scottish National Party could hit what is usually a key Labour stronghold, undermining the opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband's bid for power.