Empowering the regulators: Four proposals for changeStephen Kinnock, Labour MP for Aberavon and member of the Brexit Select Committee contributed this piece for our report Reining in the Political ‘Wild West’: Campaign Rules for the 21st Century. Our democracy is crumbling. The EU...Posted 14 Feb 2019
The risks of not reforming our electoral lawMartin Moore, Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power, and a Senior Research Fellow in the Policy Institute at King’s College London and Damian Tambini, Associate Professor in the Department...Posted 13 Feb 2019
How to improve voters’ confidence in democracyTom Hawthorn, Head of Policy at the Electoral Commission contributed this article for our recent report Reining in the Political ‘Wild West’: Campaign Rules for the 21st Century. Not so long ago, election campaigning was all...Posted 12 Feb 2019
Now is the time to bring our campaign rules into the 21st centuryThe Rt Hon Dame Cheryl Gillan MP contributed this piece as the forward to our report Reining in the Political ‘Wild West’: Campaign Rules for the 21st Century. Our democracy is at a critical juncture. We...Posted 11 Feb 2019
The Burns Report – Where Are We One Year On?Mariya Green reflects on some of the research undertaken during her placement at the ERS The report of the Lord Speaker’s Committee on the Size of the House of Lords – more commonly known as...Posted 11 Dec 2018
The Tories should trust young peopleCecilia George is a former Member of Youth Parliament for Wiltshire and wrote this piece for our pamphlet Civic Duty The Conservative Case for votes at 16 and 17. 16–year–olds are deemed mature enough to join the...Posted 25 Aug 2018
My dad would have been ready to vote at 16, and today’s young people are tooLisa Francis is the former Assembly Member for Mid and West Wales and wrote this piece for our pamphlet Civic Duty The Conservative Case for votes at 16 and 17. Last year, my dad died at the...Posted 24 Aug 2018
Scotland shows that votes at 16 worksMiles Briggs MSP, Member of the Scottish Parliament for Lothian wrote this piece for our pamphlet Civic Duty The Conservative Case for votes at 16 and 17. Arguments for and against votes at 16 are often highly subjective....Posted 23 Aug 2018
An updated Conservative case for Votes at 16Owen Meredith, Chairman of the Tory Reform Group wrote this piece for our pamphlet Civic Duty The Conservative Case for votes at 16 and 17. In 2015, the TRG put together the Conservative case for Votes...Posted 20 Aug 2018
National Democracy Week: The Conservative case for extending the franchise is stronger than everThe following piece is a guest post by Owen Meredith, National Chairman of the Tory Reform Group. This inaugural National Democracy Week, we should take a moment to remember the sacrifices made by millions to protect...Posted 03 Jul 2018