Most recent
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6 Oct 2014:
Arguments over wording of documents on floods rage for over an hour before Vince Cable presses the self-destruct button
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18 Mar 2014:
Originally published in the Guardian on 18 March 1981: As the SDP is launched, Roy Jenkins argues for proportional representation, rejecting the idea that it would lead to weaker governments and incompatible coalitions
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10 Nov 2013:
Letters: If Russell Brand campaigned for a fair voting system, perhaps people like me will applaud and not condemn
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6 Nov 2013: Letters: Britain's political system desperately needs updating to match the expectations of the modern electorate, but we should not forget how lucky we are to have the vote at all
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10 Jul 2013: Letters: A truer democratic system would be by a parliament elected by proportional representation and with laws requiring two-thirds majority voting for their enactment
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13 Jul 2012:
On paper, the regional lists offer us a greater say. But would northern representatives go cosily native at Westminster, with 15-year terms and no re-election to keep them on their toes? Ed Jacobs considers
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29 Feb 2012: Letter: Austin Mitchell should remember that the last Labour government failed to deliver the referendum on PR that was promised when it was elected in 1997
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4 Feb 2012: Kira Cochrane: Lib DemMP Jo Swinson scored another victory this week in her one-woman battle against the beauty industry. But is 'airbrushing' really the big issue during an economic crisis?
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9 Sep 2011:
Andrew Sparrow speaks to the Green party leader about economic growth, proportional representation and Greenham Common
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4 May 2011: Letters: I am voting Yes to AV because I view it as a step toward PR. I look forward to the next representation of the people act giving voters an authentic form of PR
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15 Apr 2011: Letters: Try telling all those voters in safe Tory seats just itching to put Ukip in slot 1, and the Conservatives second, that nothing will change
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Interactive,
8 Apr 2011:
A guide to the voting systems on offer in the 5 May referendum – first past the post and the alternative vote
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19 Mar 2011: Letters: Under AV the candidates 'cleared away' are not always the obviously lesser candidates. Minorities can win due to the majority against them being split
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14 Mar 2011: Chris Rennard: Leaders such as Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg who back AV must lay their differences aside to work for it together
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11 Mar 2011:
Founder of SDP, which went on to form the Liberal Democrats with the Liberal party, launches No to AV, Yes to PR campaign in letter to the Guardian
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