Nicholas Allen is Professor of Politics at Royal Holloway, University of LondonJohn Bartle is Professor of Government at the University of Essex

‘Providing an essential and accessible guide, a stellar group of scholars in this volume...explain the campaign, analyse the results, and consider their meaning.’ Pippa Norris, Harvard University ‘The volume at hand caps a trio of British elections, ending in the Conservative breaking of the Brexit deadlock. These distinguished electoral scholars take the reader down all sorts of lively paths.’ Michael S. Lewis-Beck, University of Iowa‘Readers outside the UK who want to keep up with British politics will find Breaking the deadlock an ideal one-volume fount of insight into the historic 2019 election.’ Jack Nagel, University of Pennsylvania

• Preface1 Deadlock: minority government and Brexit – Nicholas Allen2 The Conservative Party: the victory of the Eurosceptics – Thomas Quinn3 The Labour Party: leadership lacking – Paul Whiteley, Patrick Seyd and Harold D. Clarke4 The two-party system: ‘all else is embellishment and detail’ – John Bartle5 A changing electorate: new identities and the British ‘culture war’ – Maria Sobolewska6 Why did the Conservatives win? – Robert Johns7 2019: A critical election? – Jane Green8 Comparative perspectives – Sarah BirchAppendix: Results of British general elections, 1945–2019Index

Nicholas Allen is Professor of Politics at Royal Holloway, University of LondonJohn Bartle is Professor of Government at the University of Essex

‘Providing an essential and accessible guide, a stellar group of scholars in this volume...explain the campaign, analyse the results, and consider their meaning.’ Pippa Norris, Harvard University ‘The volume at hand caps a trio of British elections, ending in the Conservative breaking of the Brexit deadlock. These distinguished electoral scholars take the reader down all sorts of lively paths.’ Michael S. Lewis-Beck, University of Iowa‘Readers outside the UK who want to keep up with British politics will find Breaking the deadlock an ideal one-volume fount of insight into the historic 2019 election.’ Jack Nagel, University of Pennsylvania

• Preface1 Deadlock: minority government and Brexit – Nicholas Allen2 The Conservative Party: the victory of the Eurosceptics – Thomas Quinn3 The Labour Party: leadership lacking – Paul Whiteley, Patrick Seyd and Harold D. Clarke4 The two-party system: ‘all else is embellishment and detail’ – John Bartle5 A changing electorate: new identities and the British ‘culture war’ – Maria Sobolewska6 Why did the Conservatives win? – Robert Johns7 2019: A critical election? – Jane Green8 Comparative perspectives – Sarah BirchAppendix: Results of British general elections, 1945–2019Index