Balance of Power

British Far-Right Fury Bursts Starmer’s Bubble

Protesters face police during a demonstration in Blackpool on Saturday.

Photographer: Michael Holmes/PA

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Aside from the Labour Party’s thumping victory, the outcome of the UK’s July election was a more fragmented politics that the country’s first-past-the-post voting system had for so long hindered.