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Politics

Welcome to the age of four-party politics

The Tories and Labour can't count on ever winning another majority. Elections will never be the same

1 March 2014

9:00 AM

1 March 2014

9:00 AM

Two things will make the next general election campaign quite unlike any previous election in this country. The first is that we now have four-party politics right across Britain. In Scotland and Wales, the nationalist parties have been a political force for a generation. But the big change is in England, where Ukip is emerging as a fourth force.

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