Comment Why USDAW now backs proportional representation — and Labour must too USDAW this week took the historic decision to back proportional representation (PR) for Westminster elections. Our union represents… Dave McCrossen 26th April, 2023, 2:00 pm
News Government plans for Electoral Commission criticised as “power grab” Campaigners have warned that government proposals to reform the Electoral Commission amount to a “power grab” and called… Elliot Chappell 1st November, 2021, 3:12 pm
News Elections bill means two million people could lose vote, campaigners warn The Electoral Reform Society has argued that the government’s elections bill would drive a “bulldozer through our democracy”… Elliot Chappell 31st August, 2021, 4:24 pm
Comment Univotes is a call to action for all Labour coders In an age when the Tories are able to alter the headline of a BBC article to spread… James Calmus 17th September, 2019, 6:11 pm
Comment PMQs verdict: Thornberry whacks Lidders in battle of the big-hitting deputies If Theresa May is the Geoffrey Boycott of prime minister’s questions, batting away deliveries in a relentlessly dour… Peter Edwards 31st January, 2018, 1:30 pm
Comment The next election will be decided in super-marginals – so politics and principle demand we give 16-year-olds the vote It would appear that Labour is giving very serious consideration to ensuring our nation’s 16 and 17-year-olds are… Mike Ion 6th December, 2017, 8:30 am
Comment Jim McMahon: Tories will find themselves on wrong side of history over voting age Today my bill to lower the voting age will be debated in parliament. Whatever the outcome, we will… Jim McMahon 3rd November, 2017, 11:00 am
Comment “The pakoras we ate together tasted of solidarity and spice” – one activist’s polling day diary from a key marginal On June 8 at 11.30pm I arrived home after a day of campaigning. I started to say hello… Richard Bulmer 18th June, 2017, 7:00 am
Comment Christian Wolmar: To keep these new twentysomething voters Labour must go more green than ever before There is no doubt that it was the young people which made a difference and nearly won it… Christian Wolmar 11th June, 2017, 7:00 am
Comment Young people must hit the Tories where it hurts – in the ballot box, writes NEC rep It is shocking – but not unexpected – that the Tories have been targeting the poorest students most with… Jasmin Beckett 2nd May, 2017, 12:00 pm