{"id":1745,"date":"2026-05-07T19:43:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:43:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:43:39","slug":"the-end-of-britains-two-party-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1745","title":{"rendered":"The end of Britain&#8217;s two-party system?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As voters in England, Wales and Scotland go to the polls in local and devolved parliaments elections today, leaders of Britain&#8217;s traditional parties are looking on with a sense of trepidation \u2013 Labour and the Conservatives are regularly polling third and fourth now. What will the next general elections bring? Here is my report for Inside Europe on Deutsche Welle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/BEVANGER-UK-local-elex-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As voters in England, Wales and Scotland go to the polls in local and devolved parliaments elections today, leaders of Britain&#8217;s traditional parties are looking on with a sense of trepidation \u2013 Labour and the Conservatives are regularly polling third and fourth now. What will the next general elections bring? Here is my report for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}