卡梅伦对联合政府继续执政充满信心

Their joint appearances remain few and far between, so maybe it's inevitable. It feels like a relaunch every time. But David Cameron and Nick Cleggton want to be defensive. They believe the coalition brand is as valid today as it was in the Rose Garden in 2010. And that, if you listen to the man at the top, is because this is a coalition by public command.

"Whoever you are, wherever you live, whatever you do, whoever you vote for, what you rightly expect is for politicians to set aside their differences and just get on with the job."

So that means there will be no backsliding from the deal before May, 2015.

"This is a full 5-year coalition. The public wants us as Nick just said, to work hard on their behalf right through the parliament."

But what about those who still struggle to get their heads round the idea of coalition. David Cameron had a homespun metaphor to hand.

"To me, it's not a marriage, it is a, if you like, is a Ronseal deal. It does what it says on the tin."

Nick Clegg liked that...

"Ronseal deal. You can call it the unvanished truth. But look, ... I thought it was alright."

Journalists present seemed someway short of delirium at the quality of the jokes on offer, at least when David Cameron fired off another humdinger about his prospects of staying as PM beyond 2015, he could count his deputy to laugh.

"I don't agree with the president online (I think) it was the Telegraph website who pointed out. It's 2051 and his is still Prime Minister. Come on, you are a little bit slow today."

And that's sort of comedy gold could get a prime time reappraise in 2015 if David Cameron's words about television debates were anything to go by.

"I am on TV debate. I am in favor of them. I think they are good and I think we should go and have them. And I will certainly play my part and try to make that happen."

Setting the economy on the right track remains the Prime Minister's and Deputy Prime Minister's overriding priority. But in this review they aimed to add a few more strings to the government's bow."We will act to make social care more affordable, we will act to get more investment in our transport and infrastructure, we will act to help people with their mortgages and build more homes for them."

It's reasonably substantial document that the government is publishing here. But unusually there is not all that much in terms of detail of some of the policies we are anticipating. That's because Ministers want to roll them out over successive weeks and dominate the political agenda for a substantial period. Whether they can do that may depend on whether Labor could marshal sufficient arguments to knock them off course.

"The problem is if you are a young person looking for work, if your family whose living standard is being squeezed, if you are a small business looking for a loan, today's relaunch changes nothing."

It's a big question whether another edition of the Nick and David show will have seduced people worrying about wage or welfare caps or maybe losing child benefit. One thing though, it did show the government on the front foot and that's been a rarity of light.

Joe Johns, SKY NEWS, Westminster.