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Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said the coalition - formed two years ago after an inconclusive national election - had entered new territory after the Conservatives refused to back his plans to modernize the upper chamber of parliament, the House of Lords. Lords reform had been a key plank of the coalition agreement between Cameron's Conservatives and the Lib Dems, who in turn have now vowed to oppose Conservative plans to reform parliamentary constituency boundaries. The boundary changes, which broadly favor the Conservatives, were also part of the coalition deal, and Clegg's opposition to them will further strain the already frayed partnership between the two. "Clearly I cannot permit a situation where Conservative rebels can pick and choose the parts of the contract they like, while Liberal Democrat MPs (members of parliament) are bound to the entire agreement," Clegg told reporters on Monday at a hastily convened news conference. Dropping Lords reform is especially humiliating for the Lib Dems because the party backed a controversial proposal, as part of the coalition deal, to increase university tuition fees, a move that saw them haemorrhage support in opinion polls. "My party has held to that contract even when it meant voting for things that we found difficult," Clegg said. "The Liberal Democrats are proving ourselves to be a mature and competent party of government and I am proud that we have met our obligations," he added. "But the Conservative party is not honoring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been broken," he said. The centre-right Conservatives courted the much smaller, left-leaning Liberal Democrats after failing to gain an outright majority in 2010 elections. The two agreed to overcome their natural ideological differences in the interests of seeing Britain through its worst economic crisis since World War Two. 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