Britain is facing a crisis of trust and power. That's why today we're launching Better! - an alliance to remove the grip on power, wealth and information by the few - and return it to the many - for a better future for all. 🧵1/4

"For perhaps the first time in postwar history, all the conditions for [electoral] reform are now in place." 💯 ✅ Majority public support ✅ Increasingly chaotic election results ✅ Growing support in Westminster ✅ A pro-PR Prime Minister This could be the moment that changes UK politics for good 👇

Electoral reform has never been closer

The three key ingredients are now in place

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Important point: electoral reform could help make politics less toxic. "Research has found that democracies with Proportional Representation exhibit less severe affective polarization than those with winner-take-all. Partisans become less inclined to vilify rivals they may later need as partners."

Britain's New Prime Minister Sees Proportional Representation as a Cure to Polarization

America needs a leader to champion similar electoral reforms in this country

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Lovely to see Aldershot MVM supporters meeting with Alex Baker MP today - great to hear of her support for PR and for @alexsobel.co.uk 's amendment to the Representation of the People's Bill. Let's keeping going to @makevotesmatter.bsky.social everywhere! @appgfairelections.bsky.social

Interesting read on what Proportional Representation would look like in UK www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

How could Britain look under proportional representation? See the results for your area

These visualisations from exclusive polling modelling show how the UK parliament could change under different voting systems

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✉️ Our message to Andy Burnham: be remembered as the Prime Minister who had the courage to transform UK politics for good. Replace our broken, chaotic voting system with a proportional one that works. Sign our open letter to the new PM👇 actionnetwork.org/petitions/an...

In Richmond, the Lib Dems won every single council seat, leaving nearly half of all voters without the representation they asked for. It's great to see the council recognise that this is not what a healthy democracy looks like. Good work 💯

Richmond Council calls for proportional representation

Richmond Council Leader Gareth Roberts urges the new Prime Minister to support electoral reform and proportional representation for fairer elections.

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“Andy Burnham will be the first prime minister in our history to have made such a direct commitment to electoral reform. The popularity of Sobel’s amendment – and the sense that British democracy is stretched in its new five-party context – means that the issue could arise soon into his premiership”

Andy Burnham is already under pressure over electoral reform

The incoming prime minister is publicly committed to change. Will he follow through?

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✍️ SIGN OUR LETTER TO ANDY BURNHAM: WE NEED A FAIR VOTING SYSTEM! Together with @compassoffice.bsky.social & @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social, we've written to the incoming Prime Minister, calling for urgent action to fix our broken democracy. Add your name 👇 actionnetwork.org/petitions/an...

Dear Andy Burnham: it's time for a fair voting system

Dear Andy Burnham: it’s time to scrap First Past the Post. Our voting system only breeds instability and chaos, and poisons our political culture. We know you agree. Now is the time to fix our demo...

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“Andy should commit to launching a National Commission within his first 100 days. If Labour are to deliver “good growth in every postcode and hope in every heart”, we must rewire Westminster.” ✍️ @annadixonmp.bsky.social MP & @patrickhurley.bsky.social MP www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/andy-b...

'Andy Burnham Must Take This Chance To Rewire Westminster And Change The Way Brits Vote'

Writing for HuffPost UK, Labour MPs Anna Dixon and Patrick Hurley make the case for proportional representation.

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I've just signed "Tell Andy Burnham to launch a National Commission on Electoral Reform" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/na...

"First Past the Post has now become a chaos multiplier."

Labour4PR 🌹🗳️@labour4pr.bsky.social · last mo.

"Three quarters of unions, two-thirds of members and a new generation of Labour MPs support electoral reform." 🌹Labour MPs @andymacnaemp.bsky.social & @lizzicollinge.bsky.social call on @andyburnham.bsky.social to launch a Commission in @thehousemag.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

"Three quarters of unions, two-thirds of members and a new generation of Labour MPs support electoral reform." 🌹Labour MPs @andymacnaemp.bsky.social & @lizzicollinge.bsky.social call on @andyburnham.bsky.social to launch a Commission in @thehousemag.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

The country needs electoral reform – and Labour has the chance to be on the right side of this argument

First-past-the-post is failing. Representatives are being elected on 20 per cent of the vote and less. That is not a democratic mandate.

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Chris Curtis MP calls on Andy Burnham to launch a National Commission on Electoral Reform within his first 100 days as Prime Minister 👇 @chriscurtis94.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social 🌹 #Labour4PR

Labour4PR 🌹🗳️@labour4pr.bsky.social · last mo.

Over one in four MPs are calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform 🚀 With 166+ signatories, the amendment is the biggest since the 2024 election 🌹 Signatories include 88 Labour MPs, over 1/3 of backbenchers www.politics.co.uk/news/2026/07...

Beccy Cooper joins Labour MPs encouraging Andy Burnham to launch a National Commission on Electoral Reform within his first 100 days as Prime Minister 👇 @drbeccycoopermp.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social #Labour4PR 🌹 #ProportionalRepresentation #FPTP

Labour4PR 🌹🗳️@labour4pr.bsky.social · last mo.

Over one in four MPs are calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform 🚀 With 166+ signatories, the amendment is the biggest since the 2024 election 🌹 Signatories include 88 Labour MPs, over 1/3 of backbenchers www.politics.co.uk/news/2026/07...

💥 THIS IS HUGE! The electoral reform amendment tabled by @alexsobel.co.uk is now the single biggest amendment since the general election. 166 MPs from 8 parties have added their names - a quarter of the House of Commons. The system isn't working and the new PM needs to make this a priority.

One in four MPs demand electoral reform commission in ‘open goal’ for Burnham - Politics.co.uk

More than a quarter of the House of Commons has signed an amendment calling for a national commission on electoral reform, in what backers are describing as an “open goal” for Andy Burnham, the likely...

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WATCH: @alexsobel.co.uk encourage Angela Rayner to join the many dozens of Labour MPs backing a National Commission on Electoral Reform 👇

Make Votes Matter@makevotesmatter.bsky.social · last mo.

📺 WATCH: Angela Rayner says there's a "consensus that we can't carry on with the system that we currently have". "This is one of the issues that is starting to feel louder and louder from the grassroots." PR really feels like an idea whose time has come 💪

📺 WATCH: Angela Rayner says there's a "consensus that we can't carry on with the system that we currently have". "This is one of the issues that is starting to feel louder and louder from the grassroots." PR really feels like an idea whose time has come 💪

“The success of the Burnham project will depend on changing our politics, bringing good growth to all of Britain & delivering this as a long-term project with time enough to succeed. First Past the Post, if retained, threatens to scupper these conditions.” 🌹 Great article by Samuel Kind #Labour4PR

'Burnham's vision needs a new voting system' - LabourList

If Burnham is going to reshift the balance of power in the UK he will need to change the voting system first.

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“Things change in this country when ordinary people say 'we demand change'. This is one of the issues that is starting to feel louder and louder at the moment. I think there is that level of consensus that we can't carry on with the system we currently have.” 🗨️ Angela Rayner on LBC this morning

💥 150 MPs have now signed the amendment calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform 🌹 Over 80 of them are Labour MPs - and counting ⏰ It's time for Proportional Representation

Amendment NC31 to Representation of the People Bill to Representation of the People Bill - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament

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

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We are alongside MVM Chester and Compass Cheshire near the Chester Festival of Ideas, making the case the the time for Proportional Representation has come. #ProportionalRepresentation

🚀 Brilliant that Polly Billington MP has joined the almost 1/3 of Labour backbench MPs calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform @pollybillington.bsky.social #ProportionalRepresentation #Labour4PR 🌹

Labour4PR 🌹🗳️@labour4pr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🌹 81 Labour MPs - 20% of the PLP - have now signed @alexsobel.co.uk's amendment calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform. ⚖️ First Past the Post is not fit for purpose. We need Proportional Representation for fair Westminster elections. bills.parliament.uk/bills/4080/s...

Great speech from @andyburnham.bsky.social on the "need to change politics"! 🤝 Proportional Representation is key to “reaching across Parliament to find common ground" & mending Westminster’s broken culture 📌 Britain needs a National Commission on Electoral Reform www.youtube.com/live/j9Snx_B...

LIVE: Watch Andy Burnham give major policy speech as he bids to become UK prime minister | BBC News

YouTube video by BBC News

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We're delighted that Dr Zubir Ahmed MP has joined calls from now over 80 Labour MPs for the government to establish a National Commission on Electoral Reform 👇 @zubirahmed.bsky.social #Labour4PR 🌹 #ProportionalRepresentation #Westminster #Democracy

Labour4PR 🌹🗳️@labour4pr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🌹 81 Labour MPs - 20% of the PLP - have now signed @alexsobel.co.uk's amendment calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform. ⚖️ First Past the Post is not fit for purpose. We need Proportional Representation for fair Westminster elections. bills.parliament.uk/bills/4080/s...

💥 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."

📺 TODAY: Labour MPs debated Proportional Representation and called for a National Commission on Electoral Reform. 👇Watch Euan Stainbank, @gordonmckee.bsky.social & @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social discuss how a fair elections are key to strengthening public trust, policymaking and political culture.

Labour4PR 🌹🗳️@labour4pr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🌹 81 Labour MPs - 20% of the PLP - have now signed @alexsobel.co.uk's amendment calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform. ⚖️ First Past the Post is not fit for purpose. We need Proportional Representation for fair Westminster elections. bills.parliament.uk/bills/4080/s...

"What principle could be more basic in a democracy than the principle that everybody's vote counts equally?" Today in Parliament, there was a debate about Britain's voting system. Here's just a few highlights. Thank you to all the MPs who spoke out for fair votes!

Why not visit our stall in Forbury Gardens at Reading WaterFest this Saturday? We'll be running our Election challenge - there might be chocolate if it isn't too hot! #UKDemocracy #MakeVotesMatter #ProportionalRepresentation #FPTP

Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, Starmer... How many more Prime Ministers do we need before Westminster accepts that the system is the problem?