Westminster in the Face of the Chaos of the Ballot Box

L'Express

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For more than a century, British politics was based on almost industrial mechanics. Two major parties dominated Westminster: the Conservatives and, after the First World War, Labour. The British electoral system – this famous first-past-the-post – crushed the small parties and rewarded the great national coalitions. Elections could cause dramatic upheavals, crises or alternations. But the architectu ...