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12 May 2010

Welcome to the era of no overall control

The leaders’ debates energised what were, in truth, disappointing campaigns for all three main parti

By Anne McElvoy

It’s all over: the festival of pledges, pratfalls, fumbles and fudges that constitutes a modern British election campaign. And the result is . . . great confusion. Parliament’s hung, everyone’s lost and the only likely bet is another election not too far away. We are now in possession of the Snark of British politics – a first-past-the-post election with a muddy, proportional representation-type result.

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