Keir Starmer says ‘voting reform will not be one of our priorities’
Starmer reiterated that the Labour Party would be focused on its national missions
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The forgotten millions who deserve a voice
17% of eligible voters in the UK are not correctly registered to vote. This represents as many as 9.4 million people.
The case for Proportional Representation has never been stronger
Westminster isn’t working and we need change now.
First Past the Post favours the Tories and works against Labour
‘Labour members need to understand the arguments and the concept of electoral bias. The FPTP electoral system now substantially favours the Conservative Party and works against Labour. ‘
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, June 2022
The news you didn’t see this week…
Why we need to introduce automatic voter registration
‘Individual electoral registration was introduced in 2014. It cleaned up the rolls to a degree, but also cleaned them out of millions who should have been there.’
How the upcoming Elections Bill will cause chaos with EU citizens’ voting rights
‘As it stands, the Elections Bill will disenfranchise countless citizens who do not qualify for the EU Settlement Scheme’.
Molly Scott Cato: To stop the climate crisis, we need to fix the UK’s crisis of democracy
We need a political system where the climate-focused parties stand a real chance of succeeding says Molly Scott Cato.
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. ‘
Plans to introduce photo ID for voting ‘are about voter suppression’, says Labour MP
Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP also says that the move will disproportionately affect those from underrepresented and marginalised communities.