Beginning in 1832 with the First Reform Act, there was a hundred year gradual expansion of the right to vote. In England, there was an established poltical system with legitimacy before the workingclass emerged as a significant force. Workingclass politics has revolved around broadening the grounds for inclusion and expanding rights within the framework of that system. Age, Religion, Region are not fundamental lines of political conflict in Great Britain. The conflict in Northern Ireland remains but even there some progress has been made recently.
Class conflict is the most significant line of division in Great Britain.
Most British are workingclass but the electoral system and the party system work in ways that mute or blunt class conflict. These workingclass Tories serve as a shock absorber against raw class confrontation. But Britain is a class-stratified society and they make not as much of an effort to hide that fact as in the U.S. 7. British political institutions illustrate the workings of a parliamentary system very clearly. There is one major election to the House of Commons.