The ERS’ new strategy for 2021-2024: Alliances, agreements and action for real reformSince the ERS published our last strategy in 2016, UK politics has, in some ways, changed beyond recognition. Britain has left the European Union, the pandemic has reshaped our society, and we’ve had leadership changes...Posted 23 Jul 2021
ERS Council Elections are coming up – here’s why you should standWe’ve put together a short video on what being on the ERS council entails and why you should consider getting involved. Could you help us shape the future of electoral reform in Britain? Why not...Posted 22 Jul 2021
How can we better regulate our elections? Earlier this month, buried amidst the many reactions to the government’s Elections Bill, the Committee on Standards in Public Life (CSPL) published its report on regulating election finance, following a year-long inquiry to which we...Posted 20 Jul 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
Stephen Kinnock MP: Democracy is in retreat – and the government’s 2022 Elections Bill fails to face up to the challengeThe Elections Bill – introduced to the Commons on Monday - does not reflect the seriousness of the challenges our democracy faces from dark and dirty money, which has the potential to fundamentally corrupt our...Posted 13 Jul 2021
Breaking: Petition to scrap undemocratic voter ID plans hits crucial 100,000 signaturesOver 100,000 people have demanded ministers scrap plans to impose mandatory voter ID, amid growing fears that millions of people could be locked out of democracy.Posted 12 Jul 2021
2022 Elections Bill: Has the government jumped the gun?Proposals to reform our election laws are like buses. You wait around ages for one and then two turn up at once. Earlier this week the government published its long-awaited Elections Bill – legislation they...Posted 09 Jul 2021
Political football: Italy’s party problems go beyond its voting systemIn this guest post, Dylan Difford takes a look at Italy’s political system ahead of Sunday’s showdown. While PR-elected governments are the norm in the democratic world – and often more stable than First Past...Posted 09 Jul 2021
PM and ministers challenged over plans to disenfranchise voters on an ‘industrial scale’The Elections Bill ‘is a solution in desperate search of a problem that simply does not exist’, one MP told the Prime Minister.Posted 09 Jul 2021