Lib Dem Vince Cable has launched a scathing attack on his Conservative coalition partners, accusing them of "ugly" and "blinkered" politics.
The business secretary told activists the Tories had "reverted to type as the nasty party" and called their election adviser Lynton Crosby a "rottweiler".
It was necessary to work with Tories in the national interest, but the Lib Dems must not be "dragged down", he said.
Earlier, Lib Dem activists backed the coalition's deficit economic policy.
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg was forced to deny a rift with Mr Cable over economic policy as he urged party members to stick with the two coalition parties' agreed strategy to cut the deficit through spending cuts and tax rises.
In his keynote speech to the annual conference in Glasgow, Mr Cable said he supported his party's position to enter coalition with the Tories and to work "constructively and pragmatically" with them.
But attacking Conservative policies on immigration, the economy and Europe, he said they offered "fear over hope" and believed that "competence" could be accompanied by "callousness".
Referring to Home Secretary Theresa May's description in 2003 of the Conservatives as the "nasty party", Mr Cable said the Conservatives had spent years trying to shed that tag but had "reverted to type".
"We have dog-whistle politics orchestrated by an Australian rottweiler," he said, adding this is "not our kind of politics".
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