“The future is going to be negotiated, not dictated”: Labour figures speak out for PRAcross the country – and increasingly within the Labour party – people are realising that Westminster's rotten system skews not just our politics, but our economy too.Posted 01 Oct 2021
Labour conference: Party set to vote on supporting vital shift to proportional representationLabour conference delegates will vote today on whether to back proportional representation, and ditch Westminster’s broken voting system. Attendees will debate the policy shift at the conference in Brighton, which would push the party to...Posted 27 Sep 2021
Ministers just sneaked out a serious, undemocratic change to our voting system in England and WalesThe government is trying to sneakily force through plans to impose First Past the Post for Mayoral and Police and Crime Commissioner elections – a move which would cast the views of voters on the...Posted 16 Sep 2021
Nearly 300,000 signatures handed to No 10 over undemocratic voter ID plans Campaign groups handed in nearly 300,000 petition signatures to 10 Downing Street on Tuesday, calling for the government to scrap plans to ban those without ID from voting.Posted 09 Sep 2021
Voter ID: Thousands tell the government: “Hands off our vote”Over 50,000 people have now signed the Electoral Reform Society’s petition urging ministers to scrap plans to impose mandatory voter ID – amid growing fears that millions of people could be locked out of democracy....Posted 03 Sep 2021
Baroness Randerson on working together, Westminster’s weakness, and ‘recasting’ democracyBaroness Jenny Randerson speaks to Josiah Mortimer about reforming the Welsh and UK electoral systems and the future of devolution.Posted 12 Aug 2021
Conservative councillor: How the Single Transferable Vote broke open Scotland’s one-party fiefdoms"With STV, we are trying to steal a march on other parties, while at the same time cooperating for the public good."Posted 05 Aug 2021
Joint letter: 650 voters in London, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland call for PR at WestminsterA new report from the ERS celebrates two-decades of proportional representation in Britain, including the Senedd, Scottish Parliament, and London Assembly.Posted 02 Aug 2021
Exclusive: Ministers just made an astonishing admission about mandatory voter IDBy the government’s own admission – and research – mandatory ID could pull up the drawbridge to millions of voters.Posted 18 Jul 2021
The PM’s ‘Levelling Up’ agenda is another victim of Westminster’s warped electoral logicThe Prime Minister’s Levelling Up agenda – announced with great fanfare on Thursday – risks leaving swathes of the country ignored. In not very subtle terms, the PM suggested new powers would only go to ideologically-aligned parts of...Posted 16 Jul 2021