Could it be?

Twenty years ago following a fourth-consecutive Conservative election victory, some on the centre left responded with calls for Labour and the Liberal Democrats to work together to end Tory dominance at Westminster.

For a while at least Tony Blair went along with the idea although any prospect of creating a Lib Lab coalition ended when he won a landslide victory in 1997.

Despite Liberal Democrat participation in a coalition with David Cameron's Conservatives, there are still some in the Labour Party who believe in maintaining harmonious relations with the Lib Dems just in case the next election produces another hung Parliament.

But as Leala Padmanabhan reports, the idea is greeted with derision by many in Labour's ranks.