Although it wasn’t a general election, Thursday’s local and general polls involved around 80% of Britain – and the result is a huge call for change.
Labour and Conservative, the two main parties who have alternated in power since WWII, have suffered huge losses to resurgent left-wing Green and right-wing Reform parties, with the centrist Liberal Democrats also gaining.
While England grapples with a switch to a genuine multiplicity of parties, Scottish and Welsh nationalist parties look set to control the devolved country assemblies - raising the prospect of further divisions.
CGTN’s Iolo ap Dafydd reports from the Houses of Parliament.
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