If we are to believe the opinion polls, Labour is on course for a comfortable victory on July 4th, but Britain’s two-party system is still intact. The Conservatives may have had a wobbly start to the campaign and are trailing Sir Keir Starmer’s party badly, but no survey of public opinion has the Tories dropping into third place. The standard belief is that a winning electoral coalition is secured by appealing to floating undecided voters who are in the elusive “middle ground” of politics to get to the magic 40 per cent threshold which is typically enough to win a majority in Parliament. Dig b…
