Hywel Francis MP, the former chair of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee and supporter of the Yes campaign, sets out the state of play in the run-up to the March 3 referendum on extending the powers of the Welsh Assembly.
As the date of the AV referendum is confirmed, Anthony Barnett looks back to a speech he made, urging the Durham Union to vote for change.
The below letter from William Hague to fellow Conservatives, urging them to help the party ensure a vote against AV in the May 5 referendum, was leaked yesterday to Rupert Read. A supporter of the Yes! campaign, Read delivers a blow-by-blow response.
The bill introducing a referendum on the alternative vote finally made its way through the Lords last night. Today, at sunrise, the YES! campaign celebrated by making Trafalgar Square purple.
An epicycle in the arguments for the Alternative Vote in the coming UK referendum, it permits you to only vote once just like now!
The filibustering by Labour peers of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill is having two unintended side-effects of importance to the future of political reform. Firstly, it has brought Tory and Lib Dem peers together; second, Labour has cementing its reputation for backing away
A new Labour Peer attacks the spirit and methods of the Coalition's attempt to re-draw the UK's constituencies and rush a referendum on the voting system even though he favours the principles of reform
A damning report on the first past the post voting system has been released by ippr. Clare Coatman, of the Yes to Fairer Votes campaign, introduces the report.
Is the Lib Dem negotiator David Laws being tendentious in his account of how the Coalition came about in May? A Labour insider reports that it is economical with the truth.
The early announcement that Matthew Elliott, head of the radical right-wing group The TaxPayers’ Alliance, would be heading the “No” campaign, has led most mainstream commentators to the lazy assumption
Is the current campaign to overhaul the electoral system motored more by the needs of a disconnected elite than by popular demand?
