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A big win for fairer politics: Why Section 106 matters

How many women stand for election every year? It’s hard to tell. That’s because right now, parties don’t have to publish information on the diversity of their candidates. However, last month, the Minister for Women...

Posted 19 Feb 2025

English devolution and local government reorganisation highlight need for PR at local level

Angela Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Housing, Communities & Local Government, has announced the latest stage of the UK government’s plans for devolution and local government re-organisation within England. Six...

Posted 11 Feb 2025

we now have the perfect opportunity to ensure that all English councils properly refelct the diversity of views

Current Parliament ‘least represents how the country voted of any in history’, MPs warn

Last week saw MPs warning that our current Parliament “is the one that least represents how the country voted of any in history”, as the government came under increasing pressure to bring in a fairer...

Posted 06 Feb 2025

Many MPs have now woken up to the elephant in the room that is the Westminster voting system

Here’s how we’ve briefed MPs ahead of the Westminster debate on proportional representation

On 30th January, MPs will be meeting in Parliament to debate proportional representation – a welcomed and vital opportunity to discuss a fairer and more representative democracy for all. Support for electoral reform within Parliament...

Posted 28 Jan 2025

We have provided MP with our research - Emphasising how the voting system is letting down voters.

The Government is finally reviewing the unnecessary and unfair Voter ID rules

Voter ID has risen back up the political agenda after the Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, last week confirmed the government is going to “look at” whether to scrap the requirements. Since 2023, people have...

Posted 14 Jan 2025

in a modern democracy we should be removing barriers and expanding access to voting

This year’s General Election left millions of voices unheard

We have all heard the outcome of the 2024 general election, the surprises and the predictable outcomes, but digging under the surface there’s a surprising story to tell about the millions of voters who were...

Posted 19 Dec 2024

The rise of multi-party voting at UK general elections

With votes for parties, and independent candidates, other than Labour and the Conservatives reaching a historic high of 42.6%, the 2024 General Election saw a significant shift towards multi-party voting. The combined Labour and Conservative...

Posted 19 Dec 2024

Why are voters switching parties more than ever?

We recently published our in-depth report on the 2024 General Election, A System Out of Step. Our polling during the General Election not only revealed the extent of tactical voting under our electoral system, but also...

Posted 19 Dec 2024

New polling finds proportional representation still much more popular than First Past the Post

Every six months or so, since November 2019, the pollster YouGov have been asking the British public the following question regarding electoral reform. Some people support a change in the British voting system to proportional...

Posted 11 Dec 2024