Ever since 1964, political scientists, mainly based at Nuffield College, Oxford, have worked on the British Election Study (BES). Uncertainty over Brexit will make election hard to call – study Read moreToday’s electoral politics are fundamentally different. The 2017 election saw a swing back to two-party politics but a significant reshuffling of the two parties’ electoral bases. Two years on that picture has fractured afresh, with the rise of the Brexit party and the revival of the Lib Dems. As Geoffrey Evans, another BES author, put it this week: “British politics is no longer about the battle for the middle ground.

Source: The Guardian October 10, 2019 05:00 UTC