Leading Labour figures and democracy campaigners have urged the Labour party to get behind major political reform, following the launch of a new party-commissioned roadmap for constitutional change.
Posted 05 Feb 2021
Toby James, University of East Anglia and Alistair Clark, Newcastle University Which activities are essential during a pandemic? Across England, school buildings have been closed, as have many shops, businesses and sports facilities. So what...
Posted 08 Jan 2021
A year ago this Saturday, the polls opened on the first December election for over ninety years. At the time this felt like an unusual bookend to an unusual parliamentary term, which had culminated in...
Posted 11 Dec 2020
The ERS and groups representing elderly voters and BME communities are warning that mandatory voter ID risks pulling up the drawbridge to thousands of voters, after the government confirmed plans to impose the ‘show your...
Posted 02 Oct 2020
Download as PDF (130.5KB pdf) Democracy is about empowering citizens so they can actively take part in our political processes and make an informed decision at the ballot box. Transparency, fairness and accountability in political...
Posted 24 Sep 2020
Democracy in the Dark – our new report commissioned from two of the UK’s leading election finance academics reveals a major rise in online spending during the 2019 general election – with little transparency over...
Posted 24 Sep 2020
The House of Lords just keeps getting bigger. Following the PM’s appointment of 36 new unelected peers, each week sees more introduced to a chamber that is bursting at the seams. The Lords themselves have...
Posted 18 Sep 2020
The UK’s leading pro-democracy campaign group has called for the government to move swiftly on modernising Britain’s ‘dangerously outdated’ electoral rules, after a key Lords committee slammed government inaction on the issue.
Posted 29 Jun 2020
Last Wednesday marked 10 years since the 2010 General Election. Time flies, doesn’t it? It’s worth looking back on an election that marked some firsts in British politics. The 2010 campaign was the first to...
Posted 12 May 2020
New analysis of the 2019 General Election has highlighted major pressures on Britain’s electoral process.
Posted 23 Apr 2020