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Prospect of a new UK political party
8th August 2017
Can he be serious? Janan Ganesh from the Financial Times has been thinking about the prospect of a new political party emerging from the uncertainties and divisions of the Brexit shenanigans.
Ganash muses that previously significant figures such as Osborne, Blair and Clegg might be approached as standard bearers for an putative political party. Naturally there are numerous barriers for a new party to get off the ground, notably the first past the post electoral system.
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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