Steve Richards goes back to 1974, to explore the last time Britain faced such political flux.
1974 saw two elections in eight months. The first was so indecisive it produced a minority government. Like today, politics was going through a long, painful change. Neither major party had a commanding leader or a dominant political argument.
Dennis Skinner was a junior Labour MP, close to the miners' union - in sharp contrast to his party colleague, Shirley Williams. In 1974, she became Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection - to spearhead the minority government's push against inflation.
Meanwhile, as today, smaller parties were on the rise.
David Steel had to race back to London to make sure his leader, Jeremy Thorpe, didn't take the Liberals into coalition with the Tories.
And Gordon Wilson was one of several new SNP MPs who arrived at Westminster - feeling, he tells Steve, like commandoes in hostile territory.
