Sam Freedman and Lewis Baston
One of four themes I’m focusing on this year is the fragmentation of British politics. There hasn’t been a poll since 3rd January in which any party reached 30%. The Conservative party is still losing votes to Reform (and has fallen into third place behind Farage’s party as I predicted in my post at the start of the year). Labour are losing votes everywhere. This isn’t just due to our current political situation but reflects the decline of big parties across the world.
Is it reverserable? Should we want to reverse it? And can electoral systems make a difference? To look at these questions we welcome back Lewis Baston, who wrote a superb guest post on the decline of the Conservatives back in July.
Lewis one of the most astute political analysts in the UK. He started out as a researcher to the great David Butler, who founded election studies in this country, and has subsequently written a number of outstanding political biographies. His most recent book “Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told From the Edges” is a fascinating guide to the way redrawn borders have changed the continent’s history.
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