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Informed Electorate

Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee publish welcome electoral registration report

Last week, the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee published a new report on Electoral Registration. Even though electoral registration...

In the whole history of our democracy, we haven’t elected enough women as MPs to even fill the House of Commons

Women in Politics

At 35% we still have a long way to go on women’s representation

It’s been over a hundred years since some women won the right to stand as MPs and vote in 1918....

Only Chinas rubber stamping National Peoples Congress is larger than the Lords

House of Lords

Peter Mandelson should save his slimming tips for the House of Lords

Lord Peter Mandelson found himself in the headlines a couple of times this week. Firstly, when he criticised Labour’s plans...

Independent Green Voice is far from what you might expect from the name

ERS Scotland

Vote splitting trick won’t work with Scotland’s Single Transferable Vote

On March 7th voters in Hillhead in Glasgow will be heading to the polls for a council by-election. Among those...

Electoral Reform

ERS Scotland make the case for democratic reform at Scottish Labour conference

Along with Labour For a New Democracy, we were at last weekend’s Scottish Labour conference to talk to attendees, as...

If politicians want us to trust them they should also trust our judgement

Citizens' Assemblies

A future Labour government would be right to use Citizens’ Assemblies

This morning it was revealed in The Times that Sue Gray, Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff and former leading Civil...

House of Lords

As more peers are crammed in the Lords, the public support elected members

Late on Friday, the Government slipped out its latest honours list, which will add 13 new peers to the already-heaving...

Voter Registration

ERS reveals constituencies with the most potential missing voters – is yours on the list?

Analysis by the Electoral Reform Society has revealed that an estimated 8.2 million eligible voters are missing from the electoral...

The Sun reported on rumours that Paul Scully MP, was considering running as an independent

Local democracy

Change to London mayoral elections complicates thinking for independent candidates

Over the weekend The Sun reported on rumours that Paul Scully MP, the former Conservative Minister for London, was considering...

Electoral Reform

New Senedd Bill is an investment in Welsh democracy

Yesterday in the Senedd, the First Minister, Mark Drakeford, said “democracy only flourishes if you tend the garden to which...

We should be building barriers to suspicious money, not the ballot box

Campaign Regulation

Electoral Commission chair calls out government on voter ID and finance loopholes

In a recent, wide-ranging, interview with the Financial Times, John Pullinger, the chair of the Electoral Commission, expressed concerns about...

A strong call to better engage with the people of Wales

Devolution

Constitutional Commission on the Future of Wales’s report is a welcome contribution

Last Friday, after two years of work, the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales presented its final report...