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The Spectator's Notes

Six weeks is too long for an election campaign

7 December 2019

9:00 AM

7 December 2019

9:00 AM

The number of parties represented in national election debate multiplies. There are now seven crowding on to television podiums and local hustings. Yet this impression of diversity is, like the current public policy use of that word, misleading. Five of the parties — Labour, Liberal Democrats, Greens, SNP and Plaid Cymru — are essentially the same.

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