/422/ Meat the New Prime Minister: UK Election Rundown (Patreon)

On Labour's landslide and sandcastle majority.

We unpick what happened in the UK's general election, discussing:

• How did Labour get such a large majority with so little enthusiasm for them?

• Is the UK now a multiparty democracy, and will there be demands for serious electoral reform?

• What accounts for low turnout and the fragmentation of the vote (Reform, Greens, Independents, etc)?

• What is Keir Starmer's electoral base and how will he govern? What is their electoral programme?

• Is Nigel Farage's reform the real opposition now? 

• Is the Brexit period now definitely over? Will there be a move to rejoin the EU?

Links:

• The McSweeney Project, Tom McTague, UnHerd

• Debasing Citizenship, Peter Ramsay, TNS

• Data on the nationalist right + driving to work in the UK and French train stations