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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