Citizens want a say on devolutionLast weekend was the final of two ‘Citizens’ Assemblies’ across the UK as part of a ground-breaking project to engage the public in the devolution debate. And one thing that kept coming up was that...Posted 20 Nov 2015
Revealed: the cost of one-party councilsIf you’re reading this, you probably already know that First Past the Post hurts our democracy. But it might be hurting our pockets, too. Councils dominated by single parties could be wasting as much as...Posted 02 Oct 2015
Scotland leads the way on votes at 16Yesterday, two very different things happened around the same issue in Scotland and England. At 4:22pm in Westminster, during a debate on the EU Referendum Bill, MPs voted 310-265 against giving 16 and 17 year...Posted 19 Jun 2015
477,000 people…and five partiesThere aren’t many issues which bring together UKIP and the Green Party, or the Liberal Democrats and the SNP. But there is one which does – the need for a fair voting system. That’s why...Posted 18 May 2015
More women in WestminsterBack in early March, we launched our report ‘Women in Westminster’. In it, we predicted the number of female MPs who’d be elected, based on the percentage of female candidates parties were putting forward in...Posted 14 May 2015