News and Opinion

We welcome guest articles from members on proportional representation, elections, voting reform and voting systems.

If you have an article of between 200 and 500 words, please paste your article, along with a short author bio of no more than 50 words into the contact form.

400 CLPs and counting

By LCER | October 1, 2023

On Friday 15 September, Milngavie and Clydebank CLP became the 400th Constituency Labour Party to pass a motion calling for Proportional Representation for the House…

Not a priority? We beg to differ

By LCER | September 10, 2023

Looking back over the past few years, the campaign for PR has made huge strides. Last year’s Labour Party conference voted overwhelmingly to back electoral…

The Labour movement supports electoral reform – and expects party policy to reflect that

By Hannah Rich | July 18, 2023

This weekend, Labour’s National Policy Forum (NPF) will deliberate and agree upon Labour’s draft ‘party programme’. Not to be confused with the manifesto – which…

400,000 could be put off voting by compulsory photo-ID

By Martin Linton | July 1, 2023

It seemed like a fairly small number when the Electoral Commission announced that 0.25% of people who tried to vote at the local elections in…

‘Electoral reform has gone from niche to consensus view – Labour must back PR’

By Abbie Jones and David Ward | June 20, 2023

This article originally appeared as an article in LabourList dated 16 June 2023 “The flaws in the current voting system are contributing to the distrust…

LCER Youth Strategy 2022-2023

By Admin | January 14, 2023

Our Youth Officer, Reed James, has set up a working group to define our Youth Strategy.  Here’s the newly unveiled strategy for 2022-2023. LCER Youth…

The Report of the Brown Commission – lots to like, some notable omissions

By LCER | December 15, 2022

December 2022 saw the publication of the long-awaited report of Gordon Brown’s Commission on the constitutional and economic future of Britain. The represents an extensive…

Arguments for First Past the Post – and why they’re wrong

By Sandy Martin, Chair of LCER | October 16, 2022

LCER campaigns to change the way we elect the House of Commons to a Proportional Representation system (PR) for three main reasons: 1) First Past…

Conference 2022: A Historic Result

By John Doolan, LCER's Parliamentary and Political Officer | September 26, 2022

We did it! Monday 26 September Today is a historic day – the Labour Party Conference has committed to introducing Proportional Representation for the House…

Conference 2022: the debate is today!

By John Doolan, LCER's Parliamentary and Political Officer | September 26, 2022

26 September 2022 – Labour Party Conference will debate the following motion on proportional representation. Our political system has catastrophically failed to represent people’s wishes,…

EVERYTHING BUT THE COMMONS: WHY PR IS ESSENTIAL

By Admin | September 15, 2022

A new report from Labour for a New Democracy sets out why Proportional Representation for the House of Commons is essential in order to deliver…

The role of the MP

By Sandy Martin | August 26, 2022

The constituency link – and why PR would strengthen it LCER believes that any system of PR which is introduced in the UK should retain…