By Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor PUBLISHED: 03:03 EST, 17 September 2013 | UPDATED: 09:41 EST, 17 September 2013 Senior Lib Dems today slapped down Vince Cable for claiming the coalition could break up before the 2015 election. Treasury minister Danny Alexander dismissed his Cabinet colleague's suggestion that it is ‘a possibility’ that the power sharing deal with the Tories will collapse before 2015. Business Secretary Mr Cable stunned colleagues by also indicating that he has private ‘red lines’ that would prompt him to walk out of the Cabinet. Row: Relations have soured between Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander and Vince Cable in recent weeks as divisions emerged over the economy
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Business Secretary said it's possible that Tory coalition will end
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Also made a pitch to be Chancellor in a future Labour government
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One fellow Lib Dem minister dismissed his speech as ‘just awful’
Mr Cable said: ‘The @placeholder’ friends and donors were at the heart of the greed and recklessness which lay behind that disaster.’