Yet Lib Dem MPs - casting a gloomy eye over the polls - fear the only policy the public associate with them is their broken pledge on tuition fees.
Plaid Cymru - whose three MPs form a joint parliamentary party with the SNP six - appears equally reluctant to deal unless the UK government offers a massive transfer of powers from Westminster to Cardiff Bay.
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He is one of 11 ethnic minority Conservative MPs - which is a leap from 2005 when there were only two.
"I think people at the top sometimes forget that they stand on the shoulders of others, the people at the bottom - the administrative workers, the electricians, the cleaners - without whom there would be no profits for those companies, " he told MPs during a wide-ranging Christmas recess debate on 20 December 2011.
On the committee corridor, the Public Accounts Committee - MPs' powerful financial watchdog - has a session (at 3.15pm) called Child Maintenance and the Enforcement Commission.
Ministers responded to criticism of a perceived lack of parliamentary time for MPs to debate e-petitions by introducing a new, regular slot for such debates in MPs' secondary debating chamber, Westminster Hall, on Mondays.
How do the social workers, the hospital staff, the police, the teachers, the railway workers, the prison and immigration officials -- and yes, the bankers and MPs -- feel about the hypocrisy of a press that so readily dishes out bitter medicine but can never, ever take it?
Welsh Questions in the Commons today offered an opportunity for backbenchers to question Wales Office ministers David Jones and Stephen Crabb - and a chance for Welsh MPs to display a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils - mostly on the lapels of Labour members.
But a group of Tory MPs - including several former cabinet ministers - have circulated a letter warning the prime minister that talk of renegotiation and referendums was putting the single market at risk.
Her comments came two hours after Gordon Brown outlined a range of new counter-terrorism measures to MPs in a Commons statement.
Home Secretary Theresa May has rejected calls from MPs for a root-and-branch review of drugs strategy, insisting the government's approach is working.
Its new map of Wales is based on Parliament voting to cut the number of Welsh MPs by a quarter - from 40 to 30.
Prof Ebdon had told MPs at a pre-appointment hearing last week that if he became the director of fair access, he would be prepared to use financial sanctions against universities which failed to reach access targets.
Shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle - a Merseyside MP - told MPs that West Yorkshire's Chief Constable, Sir Norman Bettison, an officer for the South Yorkshire force at the time, attempted to "fit-up" Liverpool football fans after the disaster.
As MPs continued a Labour-led debate on the economy on 22 June 2011, one year on from the government's first Budget, Mr Javid said that shadow chancellor Ed Balls was in the Treasury "when the previous government announced that they had abolished boom and bust".
Ipsa took control of MPs' pay and pensions in October last year - so MPs no longer get a vote on it.
Now a cross-party group of UK MPs is launching a campaign to raise concerns over the London 2012 connection.
Conservative Douglas Carswell, a well-known Eurosceptic, told MPs they faced a straight forward choice: vote to give people a referendum or vote not to trust the people.
Parliament could be dissolved early only if no government could be formed within 14 days of a simple majority vote of no confidence, or if two-thirds of MPs voted to trigger a general election.
The bill also sets out that Parliament could be dissolved early only if no government could be formed within 14 days of a simple majority vote of no confidence, or if two-thirds of MPs voted to trigger a general election.
The plans have divided the Conservative Party - its MPs will get a free vote.
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The party has four MPs but has a long-standing abstentionist policy.
He emphasised too that the real decision for MPs would come - in around a year's time - when it came to ratifying any deal the government reaches in Brussels.
Ms Dorries started the ball rolling over the weekend by accusing colleague Mrs Mensch of letting down female MPs and handing a by-election victory to Labour by resigning her seat.
Because the new system is on trial, there will be another election for the chair in mid-parliament - so MPs will have a chance to give their verdict on her performance, soon.
Although Friday's debate on Mr Carswell's bill only lasted about half an hour - due to parliamentary scheduling - MPs hailed it as a symbolic moment and one claimed those present were "making history" by even discussing the issue.
After an election which saw them win more MPs and a bigger vote-share than 1997, all under an electoral system not renowned for favouring third parties, leader Charles Kennedy had expected a week of celebration in Bournemouth.
After just one year, new MPs from the 2010 intake - a third of the total, remember - are more likely to have defied their party line than those of the 1997 intake were after four years in the Commons.
Yet it remains a deeply divisive issue - as Russian MPs found the first time it was debated in parliament last year, when the discussions ended in a punch-up between opposing deputies.
It is an effort - both collectively as a party and individually as Conservative MPs - to address the public's anger about what has happened.
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