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Edexcel A-Level Politics 9PL0  |  Paper 1: Political parties  |  plain English · source question
The question

Using the source, evaluate the view that the dominance of the Labour and Conservative parties has now ended.

The source

Some people argue that the days of two-party dominance are over. At the 2024 general election the Conservatives and Labour together won their lowest share of the vote for decades, Reform UK and the Liberal Democrats won millions of votes, and the SNP has been the biggest party in Scotland for years. Others disagree. They point out that Labour still won a large majority and formed the government on its own, that Reform UK won millions of votes but only a handful of seats, and that every government since 1945 has been led by either Labour or the Conservatives.

Theme Point (argument) AO1 Example (knowledge) AO2 Explaining sentence AO3 Judgement

Read the source first. On a computer, drag a card into a slot. On a phone, tap a card, then tap the slot. The two Point cards use the source. Press Check when you are done. A couple of cards do not belong, so leave them out.

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