Democracy
Keir Starmer faces growing backlash over plans to scrap Labour leadership rules that got Corbyn elected
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.
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill threatens your right to protest
'Under the Bill, protests could be banned because they are deemed to be noisy and disruptive and participants could be prosecuted'.
100,000 demand government scraps new attempt to ‘gag’ journalists
Is this the next phase in the roll-back of democratic freedoms?
Official Secrets Act: Tory proposals are part of a long history of suppressing journalism to hide government misdeeds
The government wants to toughen the law again for the digital age. But the real target is journalists and their sources.
Government’s FOI guidelines breach deemed ‘corrosive to our democracy’ by Labour MP
All FOI requests should be dealt with equally and on an 'applicant blind' basis'.
Alistair Carmichael MP: Plans for voter ID are a ‘dagger at the heart of our democracy’
'Mandating proof of identity at polling stations would exclude significantly more people from the democratic process than it would prevent people from committing fraud on polling day. '