Title:  THE DISRUPTION OF THE BRITISH PARTY SYSTEM: A Guide to the Next General Election by Prof. Richard Rose

Summary:  The British political party system has been much slower to change than that of Scotland, but events since 2024 show that it is now changing with a bang.  This talk will give a clear description of how a five-party system is now established in England, six parties in Scotland–-and what this means for the government of Britain after the next General Election.

Speaker:  Professor Richard Rose is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Strathclyde University . He is best known as the founder and director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy (CSPP), one of Europe’s pioneering public policy research centres and has been writing about parties and elections in the UK and Europe since 1960.  He has an extensive list of books and publications.  He has recently published ‘The Disruption of the British Party System: A Guide to the Next Election’ in paperback.   Previous publications include ‘The Rolling Path to Brexit’  and  ‘How sick is British Democracy’. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.