We’ve been here before. In 1969, the voting age was lowered from 21 to 18, but its introduction was opposed by many, in the same way that votes for 16-year-olds are being opposed today.

On 16th July 2025, 4 Labour MPs were suspended from the party following “repeated breaches of parliamentary discipline”.

Shortly after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 2021, an official working for the Ministry of Defence accidentally leaked the details of 18,700 Afghans who had applied to move to the UK.

The government’s new elections strategy is a welcome step in the right direction – modernisation that’s long overdue. Not the full answer, but progress.

Nothing sums up how broken our political system is quite like the House of Lords.

It is well understood that the political legitimacy of democratic governments depends partly on levels of participation measured by levels of voter turnout at elections, but not entirely.

Protests have always played a vital role in democracy and have led to monumental change in the UK and abroad. Whether it be the Chartist marches, women’s suffrage protests or fox-hunting protests.

A choice for the Prime Minister. YouGov has published new projections on how voters would cast their support if a General Election was held tomorrow and it shows a dramatic shift. 

Keir Starmer declared shortly after winning the general election that ‘the fight for trust is the battle that defines our political era’.

This month, Unlock Democracy hosted a lively and insightful webinar exploring the future of the House of Lords.

"Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate. Such ingratitude."

'More than a decade of central government-imposed austerity on local councils looks set to continue.'

In most modern democracies, a single document lays out what those in power can and cannot do. This document is called a constitution. However, in the UK, we don’t have one!

As an American intern at Unlock Democracy, I have been exploring how the UK’s democratic system works and how it compares to what I know from home.

Will someone wake up? I’m going to start with a big statement: the local election results this year were different to anything anyone has ever seen before, certainly in this century.

Last week’s election results show the First Past the Post voting system is no longer fit for purpose.

Democracy in the US has taken a serious beating. The new President has pushed the limits of his presidential power and attacked the legal system when it stands in his way.

In their assault on quangos, politicians are not being honest about the trade-offs

“Our democracy is on the ballot. It is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it. Let us vote to protect our democracy in November.”

The ‘land of the free’ has seen a strong whiff of anarchy, autocracy and nationalism enter the White House