The Tories failure to cohere round a line of opposition adds hugely to Mr Blair's room for manoeuvre.

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As a result, a generally atomised, sometimes fractious place seemed to cohere.

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But all three of those parties still go into the election committed to a renegotiation of the austerity terms, so for such a last-ditch centrist government to cohere, Germany has to want Greece to stay in the Euro.

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Motive tends to provide coherence, and fiction needs things that cohere.

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