@seanlwoodcock.bsky.social @andrewcooper.net @florenceeshalomi.bsky.social @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social @chriscurtis94.bsky.social @conunitucl.bsky.social @alanrenwick.bsky.social @profsob.bsky.social @tobysjames.bsky.social

🚨 Experts warn Select Committee that First Past risks an election that is "simply indefensible".

Speaking to the Housing, Communities & Local Government Committee, Professors Toby James, Maria Sobolewska and Alan Renwick say government should now be looking seriously at electoral reform.

We are winning the argument and support for a more representative voting system in Westminster.

🌹 Former Labour Leader Lord Neil Kinnock calls for Proportional Representation!

In an interview with @emmaburnell.bsky.social for @thefabians.bsky.social & @labourlist.bsky.social on Monday, he said electoral reform was "crucial" to renew British democracy for the 21st century.

#FPTP #Elections

York City Council vote to support proportional representation On Thursday March 26, during a ‘full council’ meeting at York’s Guildhall, an 80% supermajority of City of York Council (CYC) members voted in favour of a motion titled ‘Fair votes for all’ which endorsed Proportional Representation (PR) and called for a National Commission on Electoral Reform. CYC is the first local authority to approve such a motion since the 2024 general election.

🌹 Labour Councillor Tony Clarke said: “A fairer voting system would contribute to restoring trust and engagement in the democratic process”

👏 Great to see York Council calling for Proportional Representation - with the backing of York Labour group

📰 www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2599308...

Petition: Set up a National Commission on Electoral Reform to review the electoral system I ask the Government to set up a National Commission on Electoral Reform, as advocated by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Fair Elections. It should be an independent, time limited, expert led…

We’re backing a National Commission on electoral reform.

If we reach 100,000 signatures, Parliament must debate it.

It’s just launched, so every signature counts. Sign and share 👇
🔗 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

#FairVotes

Will Labour embrace electoral reform? The party has had a fraught relationship with it

"a pro-PR campaign is building within the Parliamentary Labour Party. Each MP involved is convinced that it won’t be long until something has to give."
✍️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social @newstatesman1913.bsky.social

#Labour4PR #ElectoralReform #Democracy #Westminster
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Will Labour embrace electoral reform? The party has an uneasy relationship with the idea of changing voting systems. But looking at the path set by staying with FPTP, a growing section of the PLP is beginning to agitate for change.

My start of the week report for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social

Will Labour embrace electoral reform? The party has had a fraught relationship with it

Will Labour embrace electoral reform?

By @meganekenyon.bsky.social

Will Labour embrace electoral reform? The party has had a fraught relationship with it

@alexsobel.co.uk, @luke-akehurstmp.bsky.social, @drbeccycoopermp.bsky.social, @simonforstroud.bsky.social, @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social

Will Labour embrace electoral reform? The party has had a fraught relationship with it

"a pro-PR campaign is building within the Parliamentary Labour Party. Each MP involved is convinced that it won’t be long until something has to give."
✍️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social @newstatesman1913.bsky.social

#Labour4PR #ElectoralReform #Democracy #Westminster
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

⚠️ “Even on its current rather lower average poll rating of 27%, Reform UK might still just manage to secure an overall majority. Meanwhile, both the Conservatives and Labour would lose out.”

✍️ Professor John Curtice

This week our Deputy Director, Lena Swedlow, sat down with @laurabeveridge.bsky.social at @politicsjoe.bsky.social to discuss how Britain's electoral system is broken and why we need proportional representation immediately - drawing on our new research, Lifting the Lid.

Watch it in the link below!

. @adampayne26.bsky.social
of @politicshome.bsky.social suggests Labour could seek to woo Green voters with progress on electoral reform in wake of Gordon & Denton By-election at @ukandeu.bsky.social
/ @moreincommonuk.bsky.social Westminster event.

'Labour must lead on electoral reform before Britain’s democratic crisis deepens' - LabourList With trust falling and fragmentation rising, Labour must lead o electoral reform before Britain’s democratic crisis worsens.

“If the foundations of our democratic system are left to rot, we will all suffer. Labour, as the party of democratic reform, has a responsibility to lead this conversation.”

Scott Arthur MP calls for Proportional Representation in @labourlist.bsky.social

labourlist.org/2026/03/abou...

Luke is right here. Our current political system disenfranchises voters.

A first step to fixing this would be for the Government to bring forward a National Commission on Electoral Reform to give clear recommendations on how we fix our broken system.

To truly enhance our democracy, we must reform the electoral system I am pleased the government has recognised the need for electoral reform by removing first-past-the-post in mayoral elections. We should expect the...

“This is a chance for the government to listen and lead…

I was not elected by my constituents to idly stand by and defend a broken political system and failed status quo.”

Luke Akehurst MP calls for Proportional Representation in @politicshome.bsky.social

www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

@labourlist.bsky.social

Letters to the Editor – week ending 15 March 2026 - LabourList Real Labour, PR and council housing. Find out what our readers have been writing to us about this week...

“A more proportional system could better match votes to representation. The All Party Parliamentary Group on @FairElectionsUK has proposed a National Commission be set up to find a consensus”
- @damejoanruddock.bsky.social of @electoralreform.bsky.social
labourlist.org/2026/03/lett...

“My vote doesn’t matter? Why women deserve a fairer electoral system Too many women still feel their vote doesn’t matter. A fairer electoral system could change that

“Now Labour is in government it’s time to change the system at home and ensure that every vote counts so that no woman will ever say again, ‘my vote doesn’t make any difference’.”
@julie4north.bsky.social

#IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Democracy 💜💚
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

It’s time to end Britain’s first-past-the-post election lottery The Gorton and Denton by-election confirmed just how capricious our electoral system has become

💥 Professor Vernon Bogdanor writes for @financialtimes.com:

"An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented.

First Past the Post achieves neither."

Want to stop Farage with your vote? At the moment you can’t – and Starmer must fix that | Polly Toynbee The PM’s in-tray is overflowing. But he can’t afford to neglect the real issue that is distorting our politics and the way we live, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

“In Monday’s debate, Labour MPs were among many calling for a national commission on electoral reform…

The PM is pulled from pillar to post and his in-tray is no doubt full; still, this should be near the top of it.”

✍️ @pollytoynbee.bsky.social
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🗳️ "We can do better than fighting elections on the basis of the best worst option."

👏 "I want to put on record my support for the work of the APPG for Fair Elections and to urge ministers to look at the call for some form of National Commission on Electoral Reform."

@jamesnaish.bsky.social

Simon Opher, Labour MP for Stroud, calls for a National Commission on Electoral Reform 👇

🏛️ Many other Labour MPs tried to intervene, but didn't get called during a busy debate that ran late

✍️ @drbeccycoopermp.bsky.social & @timrocamp.bsky.social made their own pitch for a National Commission on Electoral Reform in a co-authored article ahead of the debate

📜 The House of Commons just debated the Representation of the People Bill

💥 Great to see more Labour MPs joining the call for a National Commission on Electoral Reform

📺 @patrickhurley.bsky.social @catsmithmp.bsky.social @chriscurtis94.bsky.social & @jamesnaish.bsky.social

🌹 #Labour4PR

Labour must not bind Britain's fate to the failing electoral system - Politics.co.uk It’s fair to say that British democracy is in ill health. Labour has inherited rock bottom public trust in politics and a state wracked by austerity. We are working to show that government can deliver...

Good to see this excellent intervention from Labour MPs Becky Cooper and Tim Roca - rightly focusing on the immediate democratic risks created by FPTP, and highlighting the @appgfairelections.bsky.social's proposal for a National Commission as the way forward

Labour must not bind Britain's fate to the failing electoral system - Politics.co.uk It’s fair to say that British democracy is in ill health. Labour has inherited rock bottom public trust in politics and a state wracked by austerity. We are working to show that government can deliver...

"The Westminster system is crumbling. Labour must rebuild it – or we will find ourselves under the rubble."

✍️ Beccy Cooper MP & Tim Roca MP

🌹 #Labour4PR #ElectoralReform #Democracy
@drbeccycoopermp.bsky.social @timrocamp.bsky.social @politics.co.uk
www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...

@instituteforgovernment.org.uk
#ElectoralReform #FirstPastThePost #ProportionalRepresentation

The real lesson to take from Gorton and Denton is for the future of UK democracy | Institute for Government Westminster is dangerously underprepared for a multi-party future.

👀 “leadership would mean recognising this byelection as a warning – an urgent signal of the need to prepare UK democracy for a multi-party future”

🚨 "First-past-the-post is creaking at the seams"

@drhannahwhite.bsky.social on Gorton & Denton
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/gort...