Acclaimed as one of the sharpest political intellects of his generation David Laws saw his ministerial career nosedive before it had begun when after only seventeen days as Chief Secretary to the Treasury he was forced to resign when unintended breaches of parliamentary expenses rules came to light You can't keep a good man down however & he returned to government where he was also responsible for the implementation of the coalition agreement & planning the Lib Dems' strategy in the run-up to the 2015 election David began writing a diary in March 2012 & continued writing it throughout his ministerial career & up to the 2015 election which devastated the Liberal Democrats in Parliament Frank acerbic sometimes shocking & often funny Coalition Diaries chronicles the historic Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition government offering extraordinary pen portraits of all the personalities involved some of whom were cast aside at the election or put to the knife after Brexit while others are active in today's government