The Reformer

Campaign regulation is needed now before all trust is gone

The need to tighten the rules around how political parties and campaigns target voters online is a hot topic right...

Bromley voter ID project

What were these ‘so-called’ trials of voter ID supposed to prove?

One of the great mysteries of the voter ID trials in May’s English local elections was what exactly the trials...

From rule-breakers to foreign influencers, our democracy is under threat

The Electoral Commission has fined Vote Leave, the official pro-Brexit campaign, £61,000 for breaking electoral law during the 2016 EU...

Revealed: Abuse and harassment in Welsh politics is rife. Here’s how to stamp it out

We got a sense of the shocking scale of abuse in Westminster last year. But there has been relatively little heard...

young voters

Why pressure is growing from the PM’s own ranks to back votes at 16

The Electoral Reform Society has launched a new pamphlet titled ‘Civic Duty: The Conservative Case for Votes at 16 &...

These ‘sham elections’ in the House of Lords must end – as the first step towards real change

Today, with 12 votes, the Earl of Devon won the by-election to decide who will replace Earl Baldwin of Bewdley...

A cross-party group of MPs are fighting Westminster’s broken voting system

This week is the first National Democracy Week – a rare moment to put the ‘nuts and bolts’ of democracy...

Young voters

National Democracy Week: The Conservative case for extending the franchise is stronger than ever

The following piece is a guest post by Owen Meredith, National Chairman of the Tory Reform Group. This inaugural National Democracy...

There’s an easy way to tackle the ‘political gender gap’ – what’s the government waiting for?

It’s no news that British politics has a big problem with gender diversity. Just a third of MPs and councillors...

Four ways Westminster’s politics needs fixing this Democracy Week

Monday marks the start of the first ‘National Democracy Week’ – the government’s initiative to encourage democratic participation. It has...

Electoral reform for Love Island?

What’s not to like about Love Island? A group of good-looking singletons enter a villa in the hopes of finding...

The need to rein in the ‘online wild west’ is now being recognised

Following a series of scandals around fake news, foreign interference, and misuse of personal data, the Electoral Commission acknowledged earlier...