Exclusive: Only one in seven voters feel well served by the UK’s political system
People want sleaze tackled, House of Lords reform and a proportional electoral system
People want sleaze tackled, House of Lords reform and a proportional electoral system
The art of nuance, compromise and cooperation in Westminster is now sadly more absent than ever.
The government has won a vote to take control of the Electoral Commission in what is being described as a dark day for our democracy. The elections bill passed last night, giving ministers new powers over the Electoral Commission, underminingtest
Professor Prem Sikka looks at the government’s latest power grab
‘Why does the country have such a clearly inappropriate man as Prime Minister, one who’s making us an international laughing stock and leaving a long-term legacy of disastrous laws and regulations inadequately administered, and a demoralised, deeply damaged civil service?’
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Starmer has put forward proposals to scrap Labour’s one-member-one-vote approach to party leadership elections, where every party member’s vote had equal value, in favour of an electoral college, in which MPs would have greater say.
‘Under the Bill, protests could be banned because they are deemed to be noisy and disruptive and participants could be prosecuted’.
Is this the next phase in the roll-back of democratic freedoms?
The government wants to toughen the law again for the digital age. But the real target is journalists and their sources.