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Once upon a time, thirty years ago to be precise, also at Annual Conference, the Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform won a victory which should be remembered and celebrated. We were 11 years into our wilderness.  We had just lost three general elections, unlike the present four.  Margaret Thatcher was still prime minister.  We were writing our next…

The left-of-centre press in the UK has favoured proportional representation for the best part of a decade – the Independent, the Morning Star, Indy100 have all published articles supporting PR, while the Guardian has averaged one opinion piece every month on PR since the 2019 election. The Guardian’s latest editorial makes many powerful arguments in favour of…

As the dust settles on December’s general election result, we look back at what went wrong and what we do going forward. The election yet again showed how our voting system benefits the Conservatives, who now have a majority of 80 with a minority of public support: they won 56% of seats in Parliament on 43%…