For whom the bell tolls: Britain’s new coalition government

Abstract:
In May 2010 the British Conservative Party returned to power. Propped up by the Liberal Democrats as junior coalition partner, the new government has since then embarked on a radical programme of budgetary cuts, ringing in an age of fiscal austerity. Who are today's Conservatives? What exactly are they doing? How stable is the coalition? And what does this mean for Britain's role in the European Union?