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Unelected House Lords

These ‘sham elections’ in the House of Lords...

Today, with 12 votes, the Earl of Devon won the...

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A cross-party group of MPs are fighting Westminster’s...

This week is the first National Democracy Week – a...

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Young voters

National Democracy Week: The Conservative case for extending...

The following piece is a guest post by Owen Meredith,...

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Male and Female candidates

There’s an easy way to tackle the ‘political...

It’s no news that British politics has a big problem...

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Four ways Westminster’s politics needs fixing this Democracy...

Monday marks the start of the first ‘National Democracy Week’...

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Love Island

Electoral reform for Love Island?

What’s not to like about Love Island? A group of...

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Facebook

The need to rein in the ‘online wild...

Following a series of scandals around fake news, foreign interference,...

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Democracy21

The campaign for truly local democracy in Scotland...

Last weekend – a rare sunny Saturday in Glasgow –...

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Enid Lakeman 1945

59 years since Enid Lakeman defended fair votes...

Last weekend marked the 59th anniversary of a major event...

Developments at the ERS
House of Lords

Revealed: The Lords is increasingly out of touch...

To many of us, the House of Lords looks very...

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ID sign outside polling station

Why are Ministers celebrating citizens losing their right...

In a comment piece for The Times this week, Chloe Smith,...

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Dominic Cummings

Inside the funny world of ‘contempt of Parliament’

It’s a commonly established practice that Parliamentary select committees can...

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