What kind of party system is the UK?

Question 1

2 party system

Answer 1

• Since 1920s only two parties to be in outright control of the government
• 2 dominant parties in NI are Sinn Fein and DUP usually end up power sharing

Question 2

Multi-party system

Answer 2

• Since 2011 SNP has had been in popular in Scotland rather than Labour despite only having 3.9% of votes in the UK
• 2019 Lib Dems, Plaid Cymru and the Greens made a pact to not stand against eachother

Question 3

A hybrid system

Answer 3

• David Cameron gave into SNP and held the Indy Ref 2014
• 2017 May lost majority and had to make supply and demand agreement with DUP