After 100 years, the British bipartite political system can collapse

A dramatic victory during a special parliamentary election. Hundreds of seats have won in English municipalities. A first taste for power in the lower government levels.

Thursday, by making in-depth gains in a set of local elections held in England, Nigel Farage, one of the best known supporters in Great Britain, President Trump and the British party leader of the anti-immigration reform, consolidated his reputation of more political disruptive in the country.

But he may still have done something bigger: exploded a hole in the country’s bipartite political system.

During almost all the last century, power in Great Britain alternated between the Labor Party leading, now led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and the opposition conservatives, who selected a new chief last year, Kemi Badenoch.

However, with support for reform and gains for other small games, this duopoly rarely looks more trembling.

“The two main parties were made of a potential expulsion of their 100 -year -old mandates of Downing Street,” said Robert Ford, professor of political science at Manchester University.