
Breaking the deadlock
The 2019 General Election was historic. In one fell swoop it resolved the longstanding stalemate surrounding Brexit and redrew the electoral map of Britain, breaking the deadlock in Parliament and bringing about the fall of Labour’s so-called ‘Red Wall’.
Since 2016, Members of Parliament had struggled to reconcile a contested exercise in direct democracy with the established institutions of repres...
The 2019 General Election was historic. In one fell swoop it resolved the longstanding stalemate surrounding Brexit and redrew the electoral map of Britain, breaking the deadlock in Parliament and bringing about the fall of Labour’s so-called ‘Red Wall’.
Since 2016, Members of Parliament had struggled to reconcile a contested exercise in direct democracy with the established institutions of repres...