Four in five Labour members back electoral reform for Westminster
New polling of Labour Party members shows 83% believe the party should support changing the UK’s electoral system to proportional representation. … Read the full post »
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New polling of Labour Party members shows 83% believe the party should support changing the UK’s electoral system to proportional representation. … Read the full post »
Sarah Green’s brilliant victory in Chesham and Amersham shows the huge political opportunity for us – as long as we can continue to apply the lessons from our 2019 election post-mortem. … Read the full post »
The Liberal Democrats have called for the ministerial code to be made legally enforceable by stripping Downing Street of the power to override decisions. … Read the full post »
Why is PR a good thing? What’s the route to securing it for more elections? How much should Liberal Democrats talk about it? … Read the full post »
LDN #148 covers the road to electoral reform, universal basic income (UBI), the decriminalisation of cannabis and more. … Read the full post »
New polling from YouGov shows strong public support for removing the remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords. … Read the full post »
Great to see an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on electoral reform up and running again. … Read the full post »
With the very welcome recent progress on electoral reform in Wales, I invited Jess Blair from the Electoral Reform Society Cymru to join me on Never Mind The Bar Charts. … Read the full post »
Data from YouGov’s political trackers shows there is currently greater support in the public for proportional representation (42%) than for the current electoral mechanism (33%). … Read the full post »
Does Germany do it better? That was the questioned asked on the Red Box podcast, looking in particular at how Germany has been handling coronavirus. … Read the full post »