ElectoralReformSociety → Delegates at UNISON’s National Delegate Conference have just backed a motion calling on the UK’s biggest union to ‘reject First Past the Post’ and for the adoption of PR for UK general elections…

MorningStar → BRITAIN finds itself in the midst of a crisis. For working people across Britain times are hard. Rising prices and stagnant wages have caused a cost-of-living spiral as bills rise and people struggle to make ends meet…

LabourList → Rules matter. The UK’s long commitment to a highly disproportional ‘first-past-the-post’ electoral system impacts on the politics we get – amplifying the voices of the two largest parties while marginalising almost everyone else…

LabourList → The most important thing that must happen at the next election is that a Labour government is returned. The party must strive with every fibre and sinew between now and then to ensure that it is with a working majority…

LeftFootForward → The last time a Labour Prime Minister occupied Number 10 Downing Street the country looked very different. Labour’s impact on Britain could be seen everywhere. From the minimum wage, the Human Rights Act, Sure Start Centres and record investment in education and the NHS…

LabourList → Labour made some good progress in last week’s local elections. We beat the Tories back to third in Scotland, strengthened our position in Wales and London and had strong results in target councils such as Dudley, Ipswich and Southampton...

LabourList → Momentum is set to back a raft of policies at Labour conference this year including public ownership of key sectors of the economy and the repeal of all anti-trade union laws following a vote by its members. The activist organisation conducted its second annual ‘policy primary’…

LabourList → Today, International Workers’ Memorial Day, is a fitting moment to reflect on those who have lost their lives in the workplace. This year’s memorial is particularly poignant as we remember the workers who gave their lives to keep the rest of us safe during the pandemic…

LabourList → Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a stark reminder of how precious democracy is. We should never take for granted access to basic human rights, the role of an independent media and the right to fair elections. The erosion of democratic values can happen anywhere…

OpenLabour → Proportional representation (PR) is an electoral system in which the distribution of seats corresponds closely with the proportion of the total votes cast for each party (UK Parliament)…

MakeVotesMatter → On 17th March, mayors from across the country have written to the government to demand that they abandon plans to impose First Past the Post on their elections...

nation.cymru → Last weekend 500 people gathered in Llandudno for Welsh Labour conference… One of the first items on the agenda was a debate on Senedd electoral reform…

Stephen Smellie → The debate on whether we should change the method of electing the Westminster government to a form of Proportional Representation is stepping up. There is a strong possibility that the Labour Party conference later this year will support the policy and trade unions and other organisations are debating this…

LabourList → On Saturday 5th February at noon, the Democracy Defence Coalition will hold a demonstration against the anti-democratic elections bill. The bill has been passed by the House of Commons and now goes to the House of Lords…

LabourList → One year ago today, Keir Starmer announced the launch of a UK-wide constitutional commission, to be headed up by Gordon Brown. It might seem fitting, then, that over the last 12 months the Labour Party has had its biggest and most serious conversation about British democracy for a generation…

OnTheWight → Stephen Kinnock, Member of Parliament for Aberavon and Labour Party Shadow Minster for Asia and the Pacific, addressed IW Labour members on a range of subjects, from proportional representation in Parliamentary elections to developments in the far East and their relation to global politics…

BBC → Mark Drakeford has urged Labour to change the way MPs are elected at Westminster. Wales' first minister said he is "baffled" by people who support first-past-the-post elections. Labour should go into the next general election promising to reform the electoral system as part of a project to "save the United Kingdom", he said…

LeftFootForward → The decision at the Unite Policy Conference in Liverpool last week to vote to end Unite’s support for the ‘First Past The Post’ (FPTP) electoral system in elections to the Westminster parliament is a ‘massive decision’, not just for Unite but also for the Labour Party…

Morning Star → UNITE voted today to back proportional representation for Westminster elections, during the union’s policy conference in Liverpool. This would mean seats in Parliament being allocated according to each party’s share of the vote…

politics.co.uk → Unite members have voted to oppose the First Past the Post electoral system at their policy conference today. Unite the Union, commonly known as Unite, is the UK’s second largest trade union with over 1.4 million members…