2024 has been billed as the year of elections, with many of the world’s democracies casting their votes this year. The elections for the European Parliament this month count for a big chunk of that. As things stand, everyone is expecting a big lurch to the Right – and not to the “respectable” Right. The European Parliament operates in a very different way to our own. While our government is made up of MPs (and peers) drawn from the party that can command a majority of votes in the House of Commons, the executive branch of the EU, the European Commission, is unelected, but nonetheless has the s…