Emma Levin reflects on our recent House of Lords research While their role is supposedly to scrutinise government, it is...
The Citizens’ Assembly on Brexit has just begun its work. The project’s director, Alan Renwick, here offers some initial, personal reflections...
Earlier this year, the scale of public anger at our broken voting system was revealed. Despite no General Election being...
While Labour achieved a nearly proportional result, getting just over 40 percent of the seats on 40 percent of the...
First Past the Post elections are like trying to peel potatoes with a chainsaw. For much of the UK, people have come...
On Monday I began my role as Chief Executive of the Electoral Reform Society – the world’s longest-standing pro-democracy group. I join...
Last week Wales has shown just what devolution can do: allow new ways of doing democracy. On Tuesday the Welsh...
The sad truth is that nearly 20 years after devolution the majority of people in Wales still don’t vote in...
Local democracy in Scotland is too distant from the towns and villages it is supposed to represent.
Baron Vaux of Harrowden (or Richard Hubert Gordon Gilbey) has won a seat for life on the basis of 16...
With Wales looking to equalise their voting age with Scotland for local elections at 16, we asked our work experience...
The way people talk about ‘Leavers’ and ‘Remainers’ is enough to make you think they have always been at loggerheads...