The last couple of weeks have been wobbly ones for Theresa May’s campaign, with the majority of opinion polls showing a tightening of the electoral race between the Conservatives and Labour. One recent poll from YouGov (hemmed in by many caveats) even suggested the possibility of Theresa May losing her overall majority: in other words a hung parliament. Could we really be facing the possibility of the Labour-led “coalition of chaos” that the Conservatives have put so much energy into warning voters about? Exposing the myths about coalitionsLet us start by putting to bed two myths about coalitions. The first is that there is something “un-British” about them, that our Westminster system of government is based on notions of strong and responsible single-party government.

Source: The Times June 06, 2017 03:11 UTC