Letters: Readers air their views on the UK’s constitutional crisis over Brexit
Rafael Behr argues compellingly that MPs must smash the party system . The Brexit chaos has vividly displayed the multiple faults of our first-past-the-post system, unresolved by a referendum in which a 52:48 win is represented as “the will of the people”. Since the second world war under our system British governments have repeatedly achieved a parliamentary majority on the back of an electoral minority.
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