electoral register Articles

Labour’s electoral demise has been long predicted. ‘If necessary changes are not made, the Labour vote will probably decline … by about two per cent at each successive general election’ wrote Tony Crosland in 1960. In the same year, two leading academics, Richard Rose...

The priority of every Labour politician on television, radio and local media must be to make clear that the government has made a choice on tax credit cuts, that there is still time to change their minds, and that just a two year delay – elequently pointed out by...

In just a few weeks' time, 1.9m people could drop off the electoral register. Why? Because of changes to the way we register to vote. These changes could bring about the biggest single act of electoral disenfranchisement in our history. Added to the already eight...

This time last year we saw the most fundamental change in the process of electoral registration with the move from household registration. This moved registration from where a head of household was responsible for registering all those eligible to vote at that...