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It explains why you end up with two parties even if you start with more. The two largest will woo minority parties until they get a majority. And minority party members know they will be marginalized unless they are aligned with the majority (or hope to be in the majority some day.)

Changing that will require a radical reconsideration of democracy, like replacing FPtP with... something.

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It doesn’t because the UK has FPtP yet doesn’t have a hard two party system.

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have nationalist movements that want out of the UK-state independence movements exist in the contemporary US too, but they are very fringe

But even England has not just Labor and the Tories, but also the Lib Dems, Reform, the Greens, Restore

So England proves you can have multiple parties with real power, with FPtP, even in the absence of regional-nationalist movements

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