Letter to the editor: Lessons from local elections

The Tories, in particular, and the Labour party lost out spectacularly while the Lib Dems more than consolidated their gains in last year’s general election and, with significantly more councillors elected than the Tories, Ed Davey was quick to claim that the Lib Dems are now the party of “Middle England”.

Despite the scornful attacks on their policies from Reform and the Tories, the Greens also did well where they fielded a candidate and so, indeed, we are a multi-party country like the rest of Europe and hanging on to an electoral system that does not recognise this is surely perverse. A confrontational layout in Parliament dates back to the days of the King’s Party on one side and the King’s Loyal Opposition on the other. Better a semi-circle for the 21st century - with proportional representation.

Keith Tunstall,

Shippam Street

Chichester