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A quarter of a million voice. One clear message. It's time to finish the job on Lords reform.
House of Lords

A quarter of a million voices are calling for House of Lords reform

We have hit a significant milestone in our campaign to reform the House of Lords: over a quarter of a...

“60% of the British public support proportional representation”
Electoral Reform

Support for proportional representation hits record high according to new research

The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) has, this week, published the latest findings from their British Social Attitudes (BSA)...

research shows that the Voter ID requirement deterred and effectively disenfranchised an estimated 10,571 potential voters
Voter ID

New research on the chilling effect of voter ID published

New research published last month by Dr Tom Barton at Kings College London shows the potential detrimental effect of new...

With growing support for more parties, voters are demanding more choice
Electoral Reform

Why are our mayors winning on less than 30% of the vote?

This past week’s mayoral elections marked a worrying milestone for democracy in England. For the first time ever, two combined...

The two party system is coming under pressure in a way not seen for a generation
Electoral Reform

The end of the two-party system? What the experts are saying about the 2025 local elections

Since the votes cast in the local elections were counted on Friday there has been extensive debate among experts and...

Mayors could be elected with the backing of fewer than 30 percent of voters
Local democracy

Are we going to see Mayors elected with even lower levels of public support in 2025?

Four Combined Authority mayors will be elected on 1 May 2025, but changes to the rules could see mayors taking...

There is a business-as-usual ‘jobs for mates’ approach at Westminster
House of Lords

Rishi Sunak’s resignation peerages will do nothing to help collapsing trust in politics

Ten months after the last government ended, it is still able to stuff yet more peers into the grossly oversized...

Automatic voter registration could have a huge impact on the number of people who vote
Voter Registration

Friday 11th April should be the last time electors had to actively register to vote

The deadline to register to vote in the local elections on 1 May was 11 April. Last February we estimated...

Peers’ behaviour over removal of hereditaries makes most compelling case for Lords reform
House of Lords

Leading lord makes open threat to government in last ditch attempt to save hereditary peers

For weeks now we have watched the bill to remove the 88 remaining hereditary peers make slow progress through the...

the responsibility is now squarely on political parties to step up
Welsh Parliament

Why the next Senedd could be the least representative of women ever

The Senedd hit the headlines back in 2003 when it became the first legislature in the world to reach 50:50...

Five days of committee and close to 150 amendments all for a two page bill
House of Lords

House of Lords spends forty hours debating themselves

Last night at 10.20PM, the committee of the whole House of Lords on the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill...

We'll be fostering a new generation of voters who will go on to become voting adults
Votes at 16

We should extend the vote to 16- and 17-year-olds, here’s why

The Government was elected on a manifesto promise to “increase the engagement of young people in our vibrant democracy by...