Safeguarding the Constitution: Key Steps to Strengthen UK Democratic Resilience Our latest report, by @lisajames.bsky.social, Meg Russell and @alanrenwick.bsky.social, sets out concrete reforms in a number of areas to safeguard the constitution and protect the integrity of democracy. Read it 👇

New Constitution Unit report makes recommendations to safeguard UK democracy

A new Constitution Unit report, Safeguarding the Constitution: Key Steps to Strengthen UK Democratic Resilience, by Lisa James, Meg Russell and Alan Renwick, focuses on protecting the constitution.

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The Constitution Unit has a new report with 21 recommendations for safeguarding UK democracy, including: 🔍 How a review of the electoral system should work 💰 A donations cap for political parties 🤖 Tackling misinformation and AI deepfakes at elections www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

New Constitution Unit report makes recommendations to safeguard UK democracy

A new Constitution Unit report, Safeguarding the Constitution: Key Steps to Strengthen UK Democratic Resilience, by Lisa James, Meg Russell and Alan Renwick, focuses on protecting the constitution.

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💬 "This is the most supported amendment in this Parliament by a distance." @alexsobel.co.uk spoke to @hansardsociety.bsky.social podcast about ways to strengthen the Representation of the People Bill, including his amendment on electoral reform. 🎧 Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0Alv...

💥 Philip Rycroft - author of the Rycroft Review into countering foreign financial interference - argued for electoral reform at @conunitucl.bsky.social: "We as a country need to think very seriously about this because there’s an awful lot of folk... whose vote leads to no effective representation."

❗️More than 140 MPs now back @alexsobel.co.uk's amendment for a National Commission on Electoral Reform. 📢 Yesterday in Parliament, MPs made the case for it during a debate about the future of the UK's voting system. 👉 Full list of signatories: bills.parliament.uk/bills/4080/s...

💥 More than 140 MPs back @alexsobel.co.uk's amendment calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform. The new Prime Minister will have no time to waste. Our democracy is broken - it's time to design and adopt a system that's fit for the modern era.

Over 80 Labour MPs sign electoral reform amendment

The demands for electoral reform are growing, with more than 80 Labour MPs, 20 per cent of the Parliamentary Labour Party, now signing an amendment calling for a National Commission on Electoral Refor...

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🚀 134 MPs have now signed @alexsobel.co.uk's NC31 amendment calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform 📊 The amendment is now backed by more than one in five MPs And by MPs from 7 parties It’s time to address the broken First Past the Post voting system Full list of signatories 👇

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Alex Sobel's amendment (NC31) to Representation of the People Bill, proposed during Report stage

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"We're having situations where parties are winning seats on 25% of the votes." As the failures of our voting system are becoming more clear than ever, the case for Proportional Representation is attracting more and more media attention. Here's @patrick-pme.bsky.social on Radio 4 👇

💥 113 MPs have now signed the amendment tabled by @alexsobel.co.uk calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform ⚠️ First Past the Post is broken. Ask your MP to sign amendment NC31 of the Representation of the People Bill

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Alex Sobel's amendment (NC31) to Representation of the People Bill, proposed during Report stage

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✍️ 111 MPs have already signed @alexsobel.co.uk amendment to the Representation of the People Bill, calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform. ❗️This makes it the most-backed amendment to the Bill.

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Alex Sobel's amendment (NC31) to Representation of the People Bill, proposed during Report stage

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🧵 Our May 7th elections analysis was published today. The findings are stark: - 41.4% of wards were won by by less than 5% - 398 wards were decided by less than 1% - 9 wards were decided by a 1 vote Election ads will now be increasingly decisive. reformpoliticaladvertising.org/after-the-vo...

A warning to all political parties from Sir John Curtice: “If your vote goes down and becomes more geographically spread, the system will murder you." This week we were in Parliament for @appgfairelections.bsky.social event about the local election results. Read our blog 👇

Do the Local Elections Strengthen the case for Electoral Reform? APPG for Fair Elections event with Sir John Curtice - Make Votes Matter

By Emma Harrison, CEO of Make Votes Matter.

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🔉Yesterday in Parliament, our Chair @alexsobel.co.uk spoke about our amendment calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform. 📝 We're pleased that 70 MPs have now signed it! 👉 Read more here: fairelections.org.uk/over-60-labo...

. @justinmadders.bsky.social MP (Labour) speaking at our recent event with the @appgfairelections.bsky.social Preventing Disinformation in UK Elections about the urgent need to get rules in place for election advertising. Listen to the whole event here. reformpoliticaladvertising.org/3556-2/

Interesting event tonight on electoral reform in parliament with @appgfairelections.bsky.social with Sir John Curtis, Tim Bale and @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social. We've also analysis we are releasing next week that illustrates how perilous disinfo will be for democracy in our new five party system.

Local elections confirm it: we’re a five‑party system. Yet FPTP means seats don’t match votes and stability isn’t guaranteed. Govt’s restoring Supplementary Vote for mayors, so why keep FPTP for Westminster? The Representation of the People Bill is a start, but FPTP must go. #FairElections #PR #FPTP

🗳️ The local election results show that the need to reform the voting system "has never been greater," says APPG member @wendychambld.bsky.social Business Questions to the Leader of the House this morning 👇

⚠️ "The winner-takes-all system means that a party can secure a huge majority of seats on a minority of votes. This poses a major democratic risk." 🔊 Our Vice-Chair @elliechowns.bsky.social during Business Questions to the Leader of the House this morning:

...We are likely to see a wave of councillors claiming victory on 20 per cent or less. “Is that representative? Does that give them a mandate? One in five, of people who actually bothered to turn out to vote? That’s a difficult sell in democracy.” www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Is it finally time for proportional representation?

With England now a five-party system, first past the post feels less and less democratic

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Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We're taking FPTP to bold new exciting places.

📣 Several members of the APPG are quoted in this article, which also talks about our work to secure a fair voting system. 💬 "The two things you want to see from an electoral system are that seats match votes, and that you can form stable governments. FPTP delivers neither," says @alexsobel.co.uk

Is it finally time for proportional representation?

With England now a five-party system, first past the post feels less and less democratic

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📣 Getting the Representation of the People Bill Right: Preventing Disinformation in UK Elections 📣 Thank you to everyone who joined our event in Parliament last night! 💬 Featuring a cross-party panel of MPs alongside @reformpoliticalads.bsky.social and @fullfact.org.

⚠️Sir John Curtice says Labour and the Conservatives can no longer rely on First Past the Post Asked by @danbloom1.bsky.social of @politico.com if Westminster's electoral system was tenable, Britain's leading polling expert said “Those who live by the sword can die by the sword” #ElectoralReform

⚠️Sir John Curtice says Labour and the Conservatives can no longer rely on First Past the Post Asked by @danbloom1.bsky.social of @politico.com if Westminster's electoral system was tenable, Britain's leading polling expert said “Those who live by the sword can die by the sword” #ElectoralReform

📣 Website update 📣 We've moved to a new domain: 👉 fairelections.org.uk 👈 Check it out to read more about our recent activities and the latest developments on the issues we're working on.

APPG for Fair Elections

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“Hannah White, chief executive of the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk, wrote: “If casting a vote starts to feel more like participating in a lottery than making a positive and principled decision, then voters are going to become ever more frustrated. This is dangerous.”” @drhannahwhite.bsky.social

The New Statesman@newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Will Labour embrace electoral reform? By @meganekenyon.bsky.social

🗳️ We welcome the recommendations of the Rycroft Review into countering foreign interference in our politics. 💷 But more needs to be done to stop the undemocratic influence of big money, not just from abroad. 💬 APPG member @shockatadam.bsky.social:

🚨"This Bill... does not stand up to the moment of crisis and the moment of peril that our democracy faces." 📣 On the Representation of the People Bill Committee, our Vice-Chair @lisasmartmp.bsky.social raised the need for a National Commission on Electoral Reform:

🗳️"Electoral reform must be carried out not because it may benefit any particular party or ideology, but because it puts power back into the hands of the British people." ✍️ @luke-akehurstmp.bsky.social in @politicshome.bsky.social

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...

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Great to be on the James O'Brien show just now talking about how we are working with @fullfact.org and @appgfairelections.bsky.social to get rules for transparency and factual accuracy included in the Representation the People Bill. We'll post the recording later.

💥 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."

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

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