British politics can only be understood right now if one realises that Keir Starmer is presiding over a “landslide minority” government: two thirds of the seats on one third of the vote.
On the parliamentary maths, things are about as rosy as can be for Labour. It has more than 400 MPs and the Tories just 121.
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