ANDREW NEIL: Just when Britain needs tough and radical leadership, our new system of multi-party mayhem will deliver nothing but instability and paralysing inertia

Thursday's elections were a watershed in British ­politics. They marked the formal demise of two-party ­politics in our country and the transition to a multi-party system. This is a rupture, a new start.

ANDREW NEIL: Just when Britain needs tough and radical leadership, our new system of multi-party mayhem will deliver nothing but instability and paralysing inertia
Thursday's elections were a watershed in British ­politics. They marked the formal demise of two-party ­politics in our country and the transition to a multi-party system. This is a rupture, a new start.