David Cameron, George Osborne, Nick Clegg and the Business Secretary Vince Cable had a "quad" meeting this week to discuss it.

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'The Quad' who run the coalition - PM David Cameron, his deputy Nick Clegg, Chancellor George Osborne and Danny Alexander, as Chief Secretary to the Treasury - met earlier this week to talk tactics.

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Mr Clegg discussed his tax objectives with Chancellor George Osborne on Wednesday and Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday.

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Sir George responded that the relationship between David Cameron and Nick Clegg was "stronger" than that between former Labour PM Tony Blair and the-then chancellor Gordon Brown, "when they were both actually in the same party".

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Mr Cameron's announcement came before he and Chancellor George Osborne, a fellow Conservative, were due to meet Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander, who are Liberal Democrats, to discuss energy policy.

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Defence counsel William Clegg QC pointed out the prosecution case was circumstantial and said there was no direct evidence that George was the killer.

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