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Our political system is in need of change more than ever before.

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A voting system game of chicken - who will blink first?
A voting system game of chicken - who will blink first?

We live in a country where politics has been dominated by a two-party system for a hundred years. And the only thing that changed a hundred years ago was one party replaced another party in that two party system. 

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Deja-vu over Mandelson
Deja-vu over Mandelson

Whether Starmer survives or goes, one thing is clear - we can’t go on like this. Ethics and standards matter.

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Dark days for democracy 
Dark days for democracy 

For the second year in a row, millions will see their local elections cancelled by the government. 

In some areas, residents will go SEVEN years without having any say on who their local councillor is, how their local council is run and how billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money is spent.

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Why has devolution ground to a halt?
Why has devolution ground to a halt?

That’s a hammer blow to plans to deliver growth and to get power out of Whitehall and back into local communities. 

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Change the voting system

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The evidence keeps stacking up that our voting system is completely broken.

Polls show that a party could win a parliamentary majority on less than 30% of the vote.

Now business leaders are warning the government that our broken voting system is making long-term planning difficult for businesses and so damaging economic growth.

We’re backing calls for a National Commission on Electoral Reform to look at new voting system for General Elections.

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Democracy Progress Report

Shortly after the election, the Prime Minister said, “the fight for trust is the battle that defines our political era”.

With trust still at an all-time low, it’s clear that decisive action to fix our politics and democracy is needed more than ever.

We’ve built a live, interactive tool to track the government’s progress on its pre-election pledges on democracy.