iNews → That the current government has to be shown the door is surely now clear to all but the most committed Tories. Austerity. Brexit. Covid corruption – a disastrous ABC…

LabourList → USDAW this week took the historic decision to back proportional representation (PR) for Westminster elections. Our union represents over 360,000 workers in retail…

LabourList → More than 40% of submissions to Labour’s national policy forum consultation have called on the party to back proportional representation, according to analysis from Labour for a New Democracy…

LCER → The arguments for votes at 16 are well established. The evidence shows that lowering the voting age has the potential to break the cycle of low engagement among young adults. We believe (and research supports) that 16-year-olds are competent to make the sorts of decisions needed to participate in elections…

LabourList → With the dust settling on Labour’s national policy forum (NPF) consultation, it’s clear that electoral reform is one of the core demands of the party membership…

NewStatesman → Yet it would be tempting to believe changing the governing party would be enough.. But truthfully, I don’t believe it would be enough. There needs to be more fundamental change…

LabourList → Few could credibly disagree that much is rotten in the country. What is significant is that the Labour leader’s proposed policy response to this has democratic reforms at its centre…

NewStatesman → Half of Britain (51 per cent) wants the voting system to change, according to the British Social Attitudes survey, while only 44 per cent want to retain the current system. Most Labour supporters are in favour and this year the Labour Party conference voted for a manifesto commitment…

Guardian → Readers reflect on a Guardian editorial urging Labour to back proportional representation, and Gordon Brown’s commission…

Guardian → Monday marks the third anniversary of the general election that delivered the largest Conservative parliamentary majority since Margaret Thatcher’s…

LabourList → When Keir Starmer and Gordon Brown launched the proposals of Labour’s constitutional review, they put Labour back in its rightful place as the party of democratic reform…

Chartist → Nearly a century ago, the 1926 Labour Conference dropped its support of proportional representation in favour of ‘alternative vote’. In practice, it has been in support of first-past-the-post since…

LabourList → The announcement that Labour will, once again, seek to reform or replace the House of Lords is a welcome one. Although a similar commitment has appeared in one form or another within every manifesto since 2010…

BBC → Labour members have backed calls to change the voting system for general elections. At the party's annual conference in Liverpool, delegates voted in favour of the party including a commitment to introduce proportional representation (PR) in its next manifesto…

LabourList → Delegates at Labour conference in Liverpool have passed a motion calling on the party to make a commitment to introduce a proportional representation electoral system for general elections…

LabourList → Delegates at Labour’s annual conference have passed motions backing the introduction of proportional representation for general elections and supporting the abolition of the House of Lords…

BBC → The Labour leader is facing increasing pressure to drop the party's historical support for the first-past-the-post voting system used for general elections in the UK…

Bylines → Only 12% of voters in ‘red wall’ seats oppose replacing the First Past the Post voting system used for Westminster elections, according to a new poll. In comparison, almost four times as many voters support a change…

FinancialTimes → Sir Keir Starmer is facing a wave of pressure from within the Labour party to back electoral reform for UK general elections, with more than 100 delegations set to issue motions at this weekend’s party conference in Liverpool…

LabourList → At least 140 local Labour parties have backed conference motions calling for Labour to support a switch to a proportionally representative electoral system, making it the most popular issue among local parties for the second year running…