Politics in Britain feels stuck. The Conservative party has not won a parliamentary majority since 1992 and last week’s local election results rubbed in its continuing weakness in the urban north – there is not a single Tory councillor in Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester or Sheffield. Meanwhile, Ed Miliband’s Labour inspires little enthusiasm. It is unelectable in large parts of the south and vulnerable everywhere to half-credible alternatives: witness recent results in Scotland, Brighton, Bradford and London.
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