The Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government is working, will last and survive its full five-year lifetime, Shropshire’s Tory MPs declared today on its one-year anniversary.

But the county’s Labour MP David Wright claimed the “divisions” are starting to show with Tory and Lib Dem ministers at loggerheads in Cabinet and reports of “increasingly bitter arguments”.

“These disputes illustrate the uncertainty and unease that those of us who work in Westminster have seen behind the scenes in the corridors and tea rooms in recent months,” he said.

“The fact is that they can no longer paper over the cracks and spin their way out of trouble,” added the Telford MP.

A year-on from the love-in that was “Clameron” in the Number 10 rose garden, significant cracks have emerged in this marriage of rival parties.

While David Cameron and Nick Clegg have by and large stuck to their vows and no-one is filing for a divorce just yet, the union is now under intense strain in the wake of catastrophic local election and AV campaigns for the Liberal Democrats.

Yet the Prime Minister and his deputy still stand by their pledge to put aside party differences and work together in the national interest. And that can only be a good thing according to Mark Pritchard who believes the Coalition must “stick to its course”.

He urged ministers to put the “high drama” of the last few weeks behind them and “get back to governing the country”.

Northern Ireland Secretary and North Shropshire MP, said while both parties have had to make compromises to make this coalition work, he believed the public acknowledged and respected this, despite periods of some unpopularity with both supporters and opponents.

“We have a long and hard road ahead, if we are to repair the economy and the society of Britain,” he said.

Coalition Government whip Philip Dunne also insisted the Coalition was going “strong” and relationships within Government were working.

“Whips meet each day and have established good working relationships,” said the Tory Ludlow MP.

And there is similar sentiment in Mid Wales

.”The Coalition is indeed strong enough to withstand the toughest strain,” said Montgomeryshire Tory MP Glyn Davies. He added: “We set out a five year programme for government and we are going to stick to it.”

By London Reporter Sunita Patel