2 May 2025, 14:46 | Updated: 2 May 2025, 15:30

By Andrew Marr

It’s a new world.

To nobody’s surprise, Nigel Farage and Reform this week confirmed that the old two-party system is smashed. These results were not really about a single by-election, but about a very widespread movement of votes right across England; Scotland and Wales will get their turn next year.

In one way, nothing has changed. We still have an angry and discontented country, which feels that nothing works, and the political class is out of touch – just as we had before the summer election.

The big danger is that, now in a system of four or five parties, and in which the Liberal Democrats look ever more important, Britain faces a sequence of coalition governments ahead, in which no party can dominate. That could well be a recipe for short-lived........

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