Professor Angus Hawkins

Angus Hawkins is a Professor of Modern British History and Fellow of Keble College, Oxford

Articles

Ideas

The myth of two-party politics

Myths, when taken to express an essential truth, exercise a powerful influence on the human mind. One such myth is that two-party politics is the natural and normal arrangement of British politics. A long-established binary alignment of partisan opinion, it is supposed, crystalizes the political competition between ‘ins’ and ‘outs’, government and opposition, those advocating […]