A solution to Britain’s two-party problem

A paralysed prime minister holed up in Downing Street, a deadlocked Parliament out of touch with public sentiment and political discourse descending into rancour and abuse. Millions of British people can be forgiven for looking at this situation with total despair. What caused this situation? An unreformed political system well past its sell by date combined with political parties which have lost their way. Can we do better? Of course. The solution lies in a ‘red & blue’ political reformation. 

For many years, those holding a traditional, communitarian or patriotic outlook have been gradually marginalised. Parliament has become increasingly detached from mainstream viewpoints – no more so than over Brexit where this mis-alignment has produced stasis and political crisis.

Commonplace ideas about family, community and nation – widely held in Britain’s hinterland – are under-represented or absent among the professionalised political class as well as in our cultural, academic and business elites.