A Tory minister has rejected calls from some of the party's senior backbenchers to separate from their Liberal Democrat Coalition colleagues before the 2015 general election.
Business Minister Michael Fallon said the arrangement was for five years and people and businesses would expect the Coalition to "finish that job".
Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers, and select committee chairman Bernard Jenkin have led calls for the parties to go their separate ways before the next election.
But Mr Fallon told Sky News' Murnaghan programme: "There is a national interest at stake here.
"Every other coalition right across Europe, has gone," he said. "This one is sticking to it, the public finances are slowly coming right, we set out a five-year programme; the first time we have had a fixed parliament in this country.
Lib Dem president Tim Farron "We set out a five-year programme all the way through to May 2015. I think in the national interest people would expect us to finish that job."
He added that the five-year fixed-term parliament meant: "business and everybody else can see that we are in it for the five-year term".
Asked about the prospect of an early split, Liberal Democrat president Tim Farron said: "I very much doubt that will happen.
"It's a few minority voices in the Conservatives who I think are getting jumpy because as the Coalition goes through the five-year period it rightly should last for … they worry that the Liberal Democrats prevent them doing some of the more extreme things they would like to do."
He added that the Lib Dems had taken tough decisions "in the national interest, perhaps not in our own, but in the national interest".
"Indeed we're doing some of the things they would like us not to do - not least giving tax cuts to 23 million of the lowest paid people in this country and tackling climate change, which many of them feel inexplicably awkward about, and increasing the state pension - things that Conservatives don't normally do," he said.
"So, yes, there is a sense that Conservatives - a minority of them - resent being in power with the Liberal Democrats, but that's because the Conservatives did not win the last general election."
Mr Brady told The Sunday Telegraph it "makes sense" to part ways before the election.
"We need to convey a clear, separate identity and a separate set of aspirations from the Liberal Democrats," he said.
"You can't get those messages across in three weeks or even three months. You need a sustained period of time to ensure voters are comfortable with what you are saying - at least six months."
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