One of us is Lib Dem, the other is Green. But we share a vision | David Boyle and Andrew Simms

Labour and the Tories are happy with a two-party system. But if the UK is to get the radical electoral change it needs, cooperation between smaller parties is vital

When, on their first day back in parliament, Labour MPs jeered the phrase “proportional representation”, it was a revelatory moment. There have been times since the election result when we wondered whether the whole multiparty, diversity of British politics was over. But reflecting on the diverse nature of the UK we realised it could not be.

There are, after all, powerful forces that would like the old binary certainties back. It may be one of the few things that the Conservative and Labour parties have in common. Even the BBC would breathe a sigh of relief if it could safely return to its old two-dimensional swingometer.

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