The Guardian view on England’s local elections: we must build something better than this | Editorial

This week’s polls could mark the end of two-party dominance. A more proportional, progressive politics must be ready to replace itThis week’s local elections in England find the two great parties of the 20th century locked in slow‑motion collapse, as a surging populist right, resurgent liberals and a fragmented progressive left scramble for survival. Labour may have won last year’s general election, but it is haemorrhaging enthusiasm. The Conservatives are debat