Home Office minister Norman Baker has quit the Cabinet - but not without launching an attack on his Conservative boss, Home Secretary Theresa May.
The Lib Dem crime prevention minister is stepping down reportedly after a year of internal battles within the Home Office with Mrs May.
Last week, he became embroiled in a fresh disagreement over drugs policy and accused the Tories of suppressing a report which backed his case for a review of the current law.
He told The Independent the experience of working at the department was like "walking through mud" as he found his plans thwarted by her and her advisers.
Mr Baker said: "They have looked upon it as a Conservative department in a Conservative government, whereas in my view it's a Coalition department in a Coalition government.
"That mindset has framed things, which means I have had to work very much harder to get things done even where they are what the Home Secretary agrees with and where it has been helpful for the Government and the department.
"There comes a point when you don't want to carry on walking through mud and you want to release yourself from that."
The Lib Dem MP also accused Mrs May of viewing her coalition colleagues as "a cuckoo in the nest rather than part of Government".
In his resignation letter to party leader Nick Clegg, he said: "I regret that in the Home Office, the goodwill to work collegiately to take forward rational evidence-based policy has been in somewhat short supply.
"I have concluded, therefore, that for the time being at least, my time is better spent out of ministerial office.
"You will of course continue to have my full support in the run-up to, and beyond, the next election which I anticipate is likely to produce another hung parliament."
In reply, Mr Clegg said: "Thank you for the brilliant job you have done as a minister over the past four and a half years, first at the Department of Transport and more recently at the Home Office.
"In both posts you have proved yourself as one of the most effective ministers in government: always determined to deliver a more liberal agenda for Britain."
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