Hung parliament: paralysed Britain
As opinion polls point with increasing certainty to the likelihood of a hung parliament, top historian Dominic Sandbrook asks: have we learned nothing from history?
Here, he outlines the five years of political paralysis, economic meltdown and national humiliation that were the legacy of the last hung parliament - and how uncanny the parallels are with today.
Posted by: tipper 2010-05-07 |