10.30am update:
Sky News reports that David Cameron and Nick Clegg had a 30-minute phone conversation this morning.
10.45am update:
Shadow Cabinet will meet at 4pm for an update on talks in advance of the parliamentary party meeting at 6pm.
12.30pm update:
At about 11.40am the talks teams emerged from the Cabinet Office, with William Hague saying that the teams were working well together and that each team was now off to brief their respective party leader. Danny Alexander made a similar statement for the Lib Dems. Around the same time it emerged that Clegg and Brown had had another face-to-face meeting this morning.
Meanwhile, the BBC is reporting that Ed Balls, Lord Mandelson, Ed Miliband, and Lord Adonis secretly met the Lib Dem negotiators over the weekend.
Jonathan Isaby
thetorydiary





