More than a month has passed since the Government set out its legislative priorities in the Queen’s Speech. The Queen’s Speech was the perfect opportunity for the Government to announce measures to strengthen and modernise our democracy. New measures to promote accountability and transparency could have brought an end to months of scandal at the heart of Government.

Unlock Democracy, with fellow campaign organisations like Conservative Action for Electoral Reform, the Electoral Reform Society and Make Votes Matter, support proportional representation (PR) for Westminster elections as an alternative to FPTP.

Yesterday’s headlines on the Queen’s Speech were dominated by references to Her Majesty’s absence, for only the third time in her reign, from this major constitutional and political event.

his Prime Minister is still ducking any accountability and now MPs have started yet another investigation into his behaviour to look at whether he lied to Parliament?

Campaigners have pledged to campaign to reverse the anti-democratic measures enacted in the government’s Elections Bill, following its final passage tonight.

It cannot be impossible for one of the longest standing democracies in the world to find a way of tackling such behaviour.

Grace Da Costa updates us on the campaign against the Policing Bill, and suggests actions we can take to defend the right to protest.

This Government has been plagued with scandal after scandal. Last year, the Prime Minister faced an investigation into his reporting of donations provided for the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat. It was later revealed that he withheld crucial evidence from Lord Geidt’s inquiry.

The House of Lords dealt a serious blow to the Government’s Police, Crime, Courts and Sentencing Bill last Monday. They stayed late into the evening to defeat the Government on fourteen amendments to the draconian anti-protest bill.

In December, Boris Johnson suffered a huge Conservative rebellion. Nearly one hundred Conservative MPs voted against introducing Covid vaccination certificates for large venues in England.

First-Past-the-Post deeply influences UK politics and Government. To challenge it, we must understand where it came from.

Working with Open Democracy, we’ve secured changes to tighten the rules on the business interests of peers

Our members and supporters tell us what they think in our latest survey.

The UK has a particularly confrontational - winner takes all - style of politics. We have to change that.

The Greensill scandal made it clear that a coach and horses had been driven through the sketchy rules that cover ministers and lobbying activities. Nigel Boardman, appointed by the Government to investigate this scandal, recently published the second part of his report. It contained hard-hitting recommendations on how to promote transparency around the communications that Ministers have with lobbyists. Many of them sounded very familiar!

The 2021 Canadian federal election has shone a spotlight on the flaws of the First Past the Post voting system. In Canada’s election, the First Past the Post system meant that the seats won by each party in Canada’s Parliament do not even vaguely reflect the vote share. The Liberal Party got 32.6% of the vote, but won 47% of the seats in Parliament.