A New Centrist Party For Britain? Good Luck With That

by Matthew Cole, Teaching Fellow, Department of History, University of BirminghamReports in the press claim that a new party is about to be formed in the UK. The party will “break the Westminster mould” by coalescing opinion in what Nick Clegg called the “gaping hole” in the centre ground.Looking at the success of Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche! movement, the Observer’s Andrew Rawnsley suggests that “opportunity knocks for a new par