2021 and what’s next for #Labour4PR
Over the last twelve months, the Labour Party has had its biggest and most serious conversation about British democracy for a generation:
325 CLPs, a majority, have voted to support electoral reform - an increase of over 200 since 2020.
80% of Conference delegates voted to back our motion calling for a manifesto commitment to Proportional Representation. We are no longer trying to persuade the membership, we are the membership.
Unite, Labour's largest affiliate has joined the overwhelming majority of Labour Party members - as well as trade unions like ASLEF, TSSA and MU - in supporting electoral reform.
Read about how it happens, what it means, and what comes next in Joe Sousek’s end of year Labour List article…
How Labour’s electoral reform shift this year happened – and what’s next for PR
By Joe Sousek
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…
At Labour for a New Democracy we’re delighted with what has been achieved this year. But the conversation does not end here.
On February 8th at 6:30 we will be starting the first of our Levelling Up Democracy event series, with Mayor or Manchester Andy Burnham.
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