Labour wins big but the UK’s electoral system is creaking

Labour wins big but the UK’s electoral system is creaking

Voters turned away from a deeply unpopular party but the true story of this election is more complex

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The story of the 2024 general election is of voters turning away from a deeply unpopular governing party. What parties they turned to and how that interacted with the electoral system is a more complex story that may take some time to fully grasp.

Paula Surridge is a professor of political sociology at the University of Bristol

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