In the last years of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, coalition governments were quite common in Britain. It is only in the years since the Second World War that one-party government has been the rule, though the country did have an informal pact between Labour and Liberals in the 1970’s.
在19世纪末期以及20世纪上半叶，联合政府对于英国来说是件稀松平常的事。一党政府只在第二次世界大战结束后才成为主流，期间也只有1970年代时工党和自由党曾经订立过一个非正式的联盟协议。