Is it time to rethink small party rights in the Commons

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Calls for the Speaker of the House, Lindsay Hoyle, to resign reveal a deeper, structural problem with the representation of smaller parties in the Commons. Aside from the SNP, there is a total of eight small parties with MPs, most of them representing UK’s devolved regions. The dominance of the two-party system in Westminster currently undermines the democratic representation of all parts of the country, argues Louise Thompson