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The ERS’ new strategy for 2021-2024: Alliances, agreements and action for real reform

Since the ERS published our last strategy in 2016, UK politics has, in some ways, changed beyond recognition. Britain has left the European Union, the pandemic has reshaped our society, and we’ve had leadership changes...

Posted 23 Jul 2021

ERS Council Elections are coming up – here’s why you should stand

We’ve put together a short video on what being on the ERS council entails and why you should consider getting involved. Could you help us shape the future of electoral reform in Britain? Why not...

Posted 22 Jul 2021

How can we better regulate our elections?

Earlier this month, buried amidst the many reactions to the government’s Elections Bill, the Committee on Standards in Public Life (CSPL) published its report on regulating election finance, following a year-long inquiry to which we...

Posted 20 Jul 2021

If the government really wants to improve the integrity of our elections, they should consider the findings of the CSPL

Exclusive: Ministers just made an astonishing admission about mandatory voter ID

By the government’s own admission – and research – mandatory ID could pull up the drawbridge to millions of voters.

Posted 18 Jul 2021

The PM’s ‘Levelling Up’ agenda is another victim of Westminster’s warped electoral logic

The Prime Minister’s Levelling Up agenda – announced with great fanfare on Thursday – risks leaving swathes of the country ignored. In not very subtle terms, the PM suggested new powers would only go to ideologically-aligned parts of...

Posted 16 Jul 2021

The Levelling Up fund will look more like a Slush Fund if safe seats and non-Conservative areas are ignored

Stephen Kinnock MP: Democracy is in retreat – and the government’s Elections Bill fails to face up to the challenge

The Elections Bill – introduced to the Commons on Monday - does not reflect the seriousness of the challenges our democracy faces from dark and dirty money, which has the potential to fundamentally corrupt our...

Posted 13 Jul 2021

Breaking: Petition to scrap undemocratic voter ID plans hits crucial 100,000 signatures

Over 100,000 people have demanded ministers scrap plans to impose mandatory voter ID, amid growing fears that millions of people could be locked out of democracy.

Posted 12 Jul 2021

This petition is a snapshot of the increasing anger from all corners at this undemocratic and unnecessary plan

Elections Bill: Has the government jumped the gun?

Proposals to reform our election laws are like buses. You wait around ages for one and then two turn up at once. Earlier this week the government published its long-awaited Elections Bill – legislation they...

Posted 09 Jul 2021

Far from improving access to elections, the government’s own elections bill could leave millions shut out

Political football: Italy’s party problems go beyond its voting system

In this guest post, Dylan Difford takes a look at Italy’s political system ahead of Sunday’s showdown. While PR-elected governments are the norm in the democratic world – and often more stable than First Past...

Posted 09 Jul 2021

PM and ministers challenged over plans to disenfranchise voters on an ‘industrial scale’

The Elections Bill ‘is a solution in desperate search of a problem that simply does not exist’, one MP told the Prime Minister.

Posted 09 Jul 2021