Earlier this month, Unlock Democracy’s survey which aimed to elucidate the complex relationship between voting behaviour and manifestos revealed arguably worrying findings regarding the influence of party manifestos on how the electorate cast their vote.

If British citizens living overseas are to have the right to vote, we must make sure that their votes are counted. We must demand reforms to the way overseas voters partake in elections.

If this week’s headlines are to be believed, the far right in France are heading for an election victory in the French General Election. They’re doing this despite winning barely a third of the vote and because of the First Past The Post voting system, that could be enough to win them power.

In this General Election, we’ve seen an explosion in websites and polling companies that claim to project results in individual Parliamentary Constituencies.

On Wednesday evening we hosted a discussion "Countdown to polling day: With Sir John Curtice". Sir John was joined by Hardeep Matharu, editor of Byline Times, and Maria Iacovou, Professor of Quantitative Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Our chair was Sangita Myska, journalist and TV presenter.

New findings by the National Centre for Social Research show that public trust in government and politicians is dropping further. 

Unlock Democracy believes it’s time the UK had an independent Debates Commission to organise leaders’ debates at General Elections.

Respect for our system of government culture has never been so low, nor politicians so distrusted, according to the latest report from the National Centre for Social Research. Yet the major parties have no plans for political reform, nor seem to understand the threat to cohesion - and to democracy itself.

Generation Z is the youngest generation which contains a proportion of the electorate: in the recently announced 2024 General Election, they will make up 15% of voters.

Humza Yousaf MSP resigned as Scotland's First Minister after the collapse of the power-sharing deal between the SNP and Greens.

With its main objective to “protect the democratic integrity of the UK from threats of foreign interference”, the Defending Democracy Taskforce, and the activities it helps coordinate, are the Government's main shield against attacks from abroad on the UK’s democratic institutions and processes. 

The photo Voter ID requirements will present a new hurdle to people who plan to vote in the upcoming general election. 

Accountability and integrity, as well as honesty, selflessness and leadership, demand of our politicians that they own up to their mistakes.

Why not take an opportunity that only comes around once every 15 or 20 years to make real changes to how politics works in this country?

A written constitution sets out the limits of Government power and regulates the relationship between the state and its citizens.  It safeguards our rights and freedoms.

We investigated the Life peerage allotments since 2019, and tested the diversity of the appointments.

We asked our supporters for their views on what a Trump win could mean for democracy. We received just under 6,000 responses.

Levelling up should have been more than just another slogan.

Did anyone think that the problem in UK politics and elections was that there wasn’t enough money sloshing around? Clearly someone did, because the Government has raised the spending cap for political parties from £19 million to £35 million at the next election.

Elections in the UK are some of the most safe and secure anywhere in the world. Out of over 50 million votes cast in 2019, there were TWO proven cases of voter fraud in the UK where a voter’s identity was stolen by another. Voter confidence in the system could scarcely be any higher.