Kelly Candaele interviewing a British political candidate. Kelly Candaele In Britain, candidates who want to be prime minister have to run throughout the country supporting their party.

However, the British "first-past-the-post" system rewards each legislative seat to the candidate who wins the most votes, without requiring a runoff if no one obtains a majority.

The greatest support for The Independent Group, according to polls by YouGov and Survation (taken before the creation of Change UK), could be found in London and the South of England, where there are ...

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“I’d been thinking about doing a show in the U.K. because obviously there’s a shared culture, similar political system, we speak the same language and it just made sense,” Vietor, 42, said ...

Government and Opposition is one of the world's leading global comparative politics journals. This means that we publish papers dealing with any part of the world, and on any theme, to do with ...

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