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The UKIP and SNP insurgency during the 2015 general election

The 2015 general election saw widespread support for insurgent parties. Professor Goodwin explains their success and argues that the SNP and UKIP will continue to play a prominent role in Britain’s political debate

In years to come the general election in 2015 is likely to be remembered for two things. First, it was a contest that most pollsters and academic forecasters got wrong. Prior to the election five major election forecasts by an array of academics and analysts had predicted a hung parliament. Some predicted that Labour would win the largest number of seats. None predicted that David Cameron and the Conservative Party would return to power with a majority, however slight it turned out to be, and none foresaw the scale of collapse in support for the Liberal Democrats.

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