The Reformer

We need urgent legislation to bring electoral law in line with digital campaigning techniques

An election could happen at any time – electoral law needs to be urgently updated

Last week, the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee published its response to the government’s Online...

2019 Conference and AGM

In 2019 we hosted our AGM in Manchester, following last years hugely successful event in London. Our free conference featured...

The assembly will be completely independent of government and parties

Support grows for new way of doing democracy, as hundreds discuss Citizens’ Assembly of Scotland plans

It’s clear that there is a growing appetite for a new kind of democracy, after hundreds gathered on Monday evening...

All the binary ways of thinking and focus on personalities has to be put aside

Four pitfalls and opportunities for the Citizens’ Assembly of Scotland

Next Monday, the firing gun will be started on the Scottish Government’s plans for a ‘Citizens’ Assembly of Scotland’. Hundreds...

We’ve told Parliament the case for updating our campaign rules – now it’s time to act

Current electoral legislation is not fit for purpose. The core elements of our electoral law date back to Victorian times,...

Conservative TV Debates

Why we’re calling on Boris Johnson to take part in the TV debates

In our fragile democracy, we need all the opportunities possible to hold public figures to account. So it’s all the...

Conservative MPs are running out of time to prevent another crisis

Why a directly elected PM could trigger a constitutional crisis

This piece was originally published by The Times In the current Conservative Party leadership election MPs and party members will...

“Citizens’ assemblies are being used to upgrade Scottish democracy”

Citizens’ assemblies can help us move beyond a broken Westminster model of politics

This piece was originally published by The Scotsman. Talk of citizens’ assemblies is in the air. Former Conservative leadership contender,...

Democracy needs you: Cross-party group seeks evidence for how to update Britain’s ‘wild west’ campaign rules

Last month saw a landmark in the push to overhaul Britain’s dangerously out-dated political campaigns laws. MPs from across the...

Darren Hughes on Sky News

ERS is the Press: May 2019

In a month that began and ended with elections for local councils and the European Parliament – both of which...

Volatile voting: Why the next General Election is going to be a shambles

Voters want to shop around more than ever – but they will be calamitously constrained by Westminster’s electoral system, according...

Ending the Punch and Judy show: How to get a more cooperative politics

There is an uncomfortable fact for those who oppose moves to a fairer voting system: all the chaos we have...