General Election 2024

Blair arguing (in favour of Starmer's majority) that anyone who votes for a third party implicitly gives a mandate to the party that wins. More evidence that this electoral system is broken, and that Labour are not going to change it.

However, people voted for disparate parties knowing full well that doing so would give Labour a big majority. The last throw of the Tory dice was to call upon the electorate not to give Labour a landslide and to explain precisely how this might happen. The advice was ignored, and we have to conclude deliberately.