Does anyone out there still think the Lib Dems have an identity?

Even the FT calls for coalition party to reassert itself.

As the Liberal Democrats stay in denial mode about the "regressive" nature of the Government's fiscal agenda, as reiterated by the IFS's report on the Emergency Budget today, criticisms of that party have come from an unpredictable new quarter: the Financial Times.

The respected, basically non-ideological and pragmatic pink paper -- which if anything has tilted slightly rightwards in recent months -- yesterday ran a fascinating...