OpenDemocracy → The Labour leader should learn from his predecessors and the triumph of fairness in New Zealand politics to push for proportional representation. t this year’s Labour Party conference from September 25-29, Keir Starmer plans to paint “in primary colours” the kind of country he wants Britain to become…

LabourList → We have disagreed fundamentally with one another for many years on Labour’s future direction, from who should be leader of the party to its stance on nuclear disarmament. But we agree on one crucial issue…

iNews → Pressure is mounting on Sir Keir Starmer to back voting reform in UK general elections after grassroots members geared up to call for a switch to proportional representation (PR)…

politics.co.uk → The Labour party will debate Proportional Representation (PR) for UK general elections at its annual conference this month, following a huge show of support for change by the party’s grassroots supporters. A total of 143 local parties submitted motions to conference on PR…

LabourList → At least 144 constituency parties have called on Keir Starmer’s Labour to endorse a switch to proportional representation this year – more than have made a single demand on any other issue in recent conference history…

Mirror → 2. Proportional representation
Conference organisers are being flooded with motions for Labour to reject a first-past-the-post electoral system in favour of proportional representation…

Chartist → How to level up the country? It’s the biggest political question of our times and one being asked with ever-greater urgency as we emerge from the pandemic. Expect it to be a dominant theme during the party conference season. The fact that regional inequality is today a top order issue is undoubtedly progress. But there is a major problem with the current framing of the “levelling up” debate…

LabourList → Whilst we don’t find John Spellar’s latest broadside against proportional representation (PR) convincing, we welcome his engagement with the debate about electoral reform. Only around 20% of the Parliamentary Labour Party supports first-past-the-post (FPTP)…

LabourList → New polling shows 83% of Labour members believe the party should support changing the UK’s electoral system to proportional representation, up from 76% less than two years ago, LabourList can exclusively reveal…

Billy Bragg → I live in West Dorset where the Conservative Party have been in power since 1886 and I come from Barking where the Labour Party have been in power since the 1920s…

Chartist → My politics, like that of many of my generation, was galvanised by the EU referendum. My friends and I felt like our opportunities were being taken away when we were not old enough to have the luxury of being asked. The general election in 2017 acted like a watershed moment…

Christians On The Left→ Come election time each party bangs it's drums of war, activists pound the streets and we in Labour fight for our chance to get into government…

Julian Vaughan → I am proud to have written the motion on a fairer voting system that was recently adopted by ASLEF at their Annual Assembly of Delegates. However, in a democratic union like ASLEF, success is only achieved with the support of branch delegates from across the railway network.…

Guardian → Keir Starmer is under mounting pressure from Labour activists to make reform of the voting system a manifesto commitment, amid rising public concern about its unfairness and fears that it could leave left-of-centre parties out of government for good…

LabourList → Some Labour members also believe that the current electoral maths makes an alliance with other progressive parties desirable or even necessary. But if we were to try to form such a Progressive Alliance with the Green Party and the Lib Dems at the next general election there would be some big hurdles to overcome…

LabourList → Labour for a New Democracy will launch a ‘roadshow’ series of events to “put beyond doubt” the need for the party to back proportional representation after a third of local parties called on the leadership to back the change…

Independent → Left-wing campaign group Momentum is to push the Labour party to support proportional representation, after a ballot of its members came out in strong support of the policy…

NewStatesman → There was great news for electoral reform campaigners in the Spectator last week. Nick Tyrone, the former director of the liberal CentreForum think tank, claimed proportional representation would “hand the Tories power for the rest of the century”…

LabourList → Momentum is set to push for a £15 minimum wage, a change in the Westminster voting system to proportional representation and a four-day working week among other policies at Labour conference this year following a vote of its members…

The New European → It may not seem at the top of voters' concerns but electoral reform offers a chance to tackle so many of the UK's problems and Labour must seize it now…