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<p>Lengthy meeting heard grumbles about ‘blue wall’ policies and ‘Ming vase’ tactics but no real rancour</p><p>As political showdowns go, this week’s gathering of Liberal Democrat MPs, billed by some as a crunch moment for Ed Davey, was a touch underwhelming. “I had expected a damp squib,” one attender put it. “It was damper than I thought.”</p><p>Far from g

The BBC's political editor Chris Mason looks at the fallout from the Lib Dem frontbench resignations.