Perhaps today. Particularly with our especially unrepresentative first past the post system that can only work for two parties. Going further back UK politics w

Perhaps today. Particularly with our especially unrepresentative first past the post system that can only work for two parties. Going further back UK politics was much less whip-driven, or politics by pager as became the Blairite tendency. Minor parties were a more accepted part of politics, as was a far wider range of views within a party.