electoral reform Articles

Is it time for English local government to be elected by single transferable vote? Gordon Matheson and Joanne Harding debate [column-group][column] YES Last year I stepped down after 17 years as a councillor, including more than five years as leader of Glasgow city...

Parliament's most elitist election shows why government should bring the era of unelected lawmaking to a close altogether, writes Darren Hughes In 1999, the House of Lords Act removed all but 92 of the ‘backwoodsmen’ – the hundreds of (almost entirely Conservative)...

Demanding photo ID at polling stations discriminates against the poor and the young, argues Paul Wheeler While the nation gently snoozed off its post-Christmas excess the government thought that Boxing Day was the best time to announce major changes to the voting...

I graduated from being a long-serving local government officer into a political activist because I saw the damage being done to this country by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition after 2010. However, I was also motivated by the fact that the party had no...