Trial by jury occupies a unique place in Britain's constitutional tradition. Long before the emergence of universal suffrage or representative democracy, it gave ordinary citizens a direct role in the administration of justice and, in doing so, established an enduring check on the power of the state.

The Representation of the People Bill will soon give 16 and 17-year olds across the United Kingdom the right to vote in all elections. The government hopes this will engage voters at a young age, helping to build the foundations for lifelong participation in elections.

I have been in the United Kingdom for about 5 weeks now, interning with Unlock Democracy. I have learned much about the English political system and have noticed a striking number of similarities in the state of democracy in the UK, and the state of democracy in my home country, the United States. 

Parliament should represent the voters – all the voters. That is impossible while an estimated 6-8 million eligible people remain missing from the electoral register, disproportionately young people, private renters and people from ethnic minority communities.

Andy Burnham has spoken repeatedly about the need for a different kind of politics. His first 100 days as Prime Minister will shape whether that promise becomes reality.

Bold promises of radical change lacked coherence, yielding disjointed and contradictory results.

Grounded Civic Representation is a democratic scrutiny system that temporarily brings experienced people from sectors such as healthcare, education, transport, engineering and other public-facing professions into government review processes.

A universal cap on political donations is simpler, fairer and far harder to sidestep.

Trump is claiming another election has been rigged, this time in California. 

Big money donations to political parties are doing huge damage to trust in our politics. 

The decision about who governs the country should rest with those accountable to the voters: MPs.

The government is coming under increasing pressure as MPs from across Parliament call for a review of Westminster’s First Past the Post voting system. Over 100 MPs have now signed an amendment to the Representation of the People Bill calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform.

Elections to the Scottish Parliament are regularly highlighted by democracy campaigners as a viable alternative to Westminster's indefensible First Past the Post system. But after last month’s produced Scotland's least ever proportional election, changes are needed north of the border too.

Britain’s two-party system didn’t just weaken this May. It broke. With it have gone the political conditions First Past the Post requires to work properly.

We’re about to see which electoral systems still make sense for the politics Britain actually has.

Did the Prime Minister knowingly mislead Parliament on Mandelson’s appointment? Can everything be pinned on a single civil servant acting alone and without any knowledge of the Foreign Secretary or anyone in No 10?

A second chamber that relies on the patronage of modern day Prime Ministers through life peerages is hardly a giant leap forward over the descendants of men given hereditary peerages hundreds of years ago!

The presence of Vice President JD Vance campaigning alongside Orban last week did not seem to sway voters.

Dr Peter Emerson’s new report, Egalitarian Decision-Making, argues that the binary nature of voting in our democracy leads to flawed decision-making, and should be replaced with a system of ranking different options.

Removing hereditary peers won't go far enough to give the Lords legitimacy