We have a four-plus party system with support split between the Tories, Labour, the Brexit party and the Lib Dems, plus a segment for the Greens. In Scotland and Wales, the nationalists make it a five-plus party system. It is not too much of a stretch to argue that we are really in a six- to seven-plus party system. The new politics is trying to express itself through an archaic electoral system designed to work with only two contenders. When you feed multi-party politics through a first-past-the-post system you can end up with some extremely unappetising results.

Source: The Guardian June 09, 2019 07:00 UTC