The UK enjoyed a fairly consistent rise in democratic satisfaction from the 1970s, however it has plunged since 2005.
The UK is said to have enjoyed a fairly consistent rise in democratic satisfaction from the 1970s, until Tony Blair's premiership took an unpopular turn thanks to the Iraq War.
By 2019, when Theresa May and Boris Johnson both failed to make much progress on Brexit until the latter secured a landslide general election win in December, a clear majority of UK citizens were dissatisfied with democracy. "We need to move beyond thinking about immediate crises in politics and take a longer view to identify possible trajectories for democracy around the world," he said.
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