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Britain Leaves Two-Party Politics Behind
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- On May 7, voters across the United Kingdom will elect new local councils, municipal authorities, and devolved national governments.
- It is starting to look as if the two-party Westminster system, the Labour Party and Conservative Party duopoly that has dominated U.K. politics for more than a century, is coming apart.
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On May 7, voters across the United Kingdom will elect new local councils, municipal authorities, and devolved national governments. These elections—don’t call them the British midterms—could be seismic.
It is starting to look as if the two-party Westminster system, the Labour Party and Conservative Party duopoly that has dominated U.K. politics for more than a century, is coming apart. Anti-establishment sentiment takes on a slightly different form in each constituent part of the U.K.; collectively, these trends could weaken British political unity.
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