To act or not to act, that is the question The Left has made clear its reluctance to precipitate an election at this time. At least on one occasion during this off-and-on dialogue, the Left declared that it would withdraw its support from the government if it started on the operationalising route. Perhaps the point to note in these statements and non-statements is that the no-threat denial is itself a not too oblique threat.
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