As I sit down to write this piece, the General Election is just 100 days away. A lot can happen in 100 days: it was the time between Napoleon’s return from exile on Elba through to his defeat at Waterloo exactly 200 years ago, and it was the whirlwind period of action in which Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced the New Deal which addressed America’s Great Depression.
And this is a General Election like no other: whatever the outcome, long-held assumptions have to be rewritten: not since the 1950s has a governing party increased its Commons representation; no Labour opposition has returned to majority power after just one term; no Parliament has been hung twice in succession.
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