Coalition will not make it to election, predicts senior Tory Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservatives, said that the two parties should have a "moment of separation" well before the election in order to set out distinct policies to voters. Lynne Featherstone, a Home Office minister, warned that Conservatives who opposed the change would face "consequences" while other Lib Dems suggested the party could block plans to redraw Commons boundaries. Mr Brady told BBC Radio 4's The Westminster Hour that the formal partnership between the two parties is now unlikely to survive until 2015. Some Tories believe the Coalition will dissolve as soon as next year and be replaced with a "confidence and supply" deal where the Lib Dems back a minority Tory administration until an election. Mr Brady said: "It would be logical and sensible for both parties to be able to pesent their separate vision to the public in time for the public to form a clear view before the election. Of course, it is always possible that that moment of separation could come sooner. It's very difficult to predict when that might be. Mr Brady's remarks came hours after Mr Cameron used a newspaper article to downplay the significance of recent Coalition rows and insist that Britain is "not even close" to an election.