If, as pundits claim, Thursday’s election is done and dusted before the voters even get to the polling stations, is there a risk of the excitement turning into anticlimax? That’s not going to happen. For general elections, landslide or razor’s edge, are the great defining moments of British history. They are, so the British like to think, what they do instead of revolutions and civil wars.
True, there was that unfortunate blip in the 17th century. But then, had Charles I seen reason…
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