voter registration Articles

Students are a vital part of the communities we represent. Government has a duty to remove the barriers they face when registering to vote, argues Rosie Duffield Like many other university cities, the Labour party’s remarkable 2017 success in Canterbury has been...

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...

A view from 2020 – how David Cameron and George Osborne systematically destroyed the Labour party It is the year 2020. Five years since the Conservative party’s unexpected victory at the ballot box. Now they sit on a majority of 42. How did they do it? Perhaps the...

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...