Lib-Lab

Lib-Lab
adj
of any agreement between the Liberal Party (or Liberal Democratic Party) and the Labour Party in Britain. The Lib-Lab pact (1977–8) was an agreement between David Steel of the Liberal Party and James Callaghan of the Labour government to work together to oppose the Conservative Party in the House of Commons:

a Lib-Lab deal/agreement/plan.

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