proportional representation 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...

I have always been a supporter of a fairer voting system. It is seems absurd to me that the United Kingdom has had general elections where the losing party has achieved more votes than the winner, or where whole regions return over 90 per cent of members of parliament...

For those whose approach to politics begins by pigeon-holing, I am usually shoved in a box marked ‘centre ground’. The great thing about being placed there is that I am in the middle of things and within easy reach of everyone else. So I have never been scornful of...

Ed Miliband has easily won conference season two years running. His pitch for Labour to be the party of One Nation has helped to frame the party’s approach to the last half of this parliament. Last autumn he added his theme of fixing broken markets, a notion still...