Uncertain future will alter UK politics

A radical shake-up of the way Britain votes is on the cards following yesterday’s knife-edge election result.

The fragmentation of politics marked by the rise of nationalists and special interest parties such as the Greens has prompted widespread demands to a reform of the voting system.

Britain’s first-past-the-post system has proved popular in the past because it nearly always delivered a clear-cut majority result for one of the two big parties, but voter dissatisfaction with the Tories and Labour has left the country open to widely disproportionate results.