Gary Gibbon
Ed Miliband tells Nick Clegg to ‘lie low’ on AV
Ed Miliband has some advice for Nick Clegg on the alternative vote referendum, as Gary Gibbon writes.
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Ed Miliband: the alternative brother
Read Krishnan Guru-Murthys interview with Ed Miliband on why he wanted to become Labour’s leader.
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Coalition agreement: ‘bad news’ for Tory voters?
Where does the coalition agreement depart from the Conservative manifesto? FactCheck investigates.
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Still undecided? Vote 2010 FactChecked
Roundup of the Vote 2010 Election FactCheck blog
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FactCheck: Are the Tories gerrymandering the election boundaries?
Calls for political reform spun out of the expenses scandal of 2009 and hurtled towards last year’s general election, with all three major parties promising change in their manifestos. Labour proposed a non-partisan parliamentary boundary review that would look at the rules for the redistribution of seats, as well as an Alternative Vote (AV) referendum. Its manifesto said: “The cost of politics to the taxpayer must be minimised but we reject using this as an excuse to gerrymander constituency boundaries in the interest of one political party.” The Tories meanwhile championed a 10 per cent cut in the number of MPs, while the Lib Dem manifesto stated that it would making voting fairer by introducing Single Transferable Vote (STV) for elections, the number of MPs could be cut from 650 to 500. We’ve already said no to AV, so now it’s down to the boundary changes to kick start reform. But is it fair, or are the Tories manipulating the system?
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Get used to more coalitions. Just don’t blame it on AV…
David Cameron thinks landslide elections like the one that brought Tony Blair to power might become a thing of the past under the Alternative Vote system. Is he right?
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Tories ‘have nothing to fear from AV’
An exclusive YouGov poll for Channel 4 News has challenged assumptions about the effect on the electoral fortunes of all three main political parties of adopting the Alternative Vote system.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Detente – not the end of the Cold War in the Lords
Our Political Editor of the peace – of a kind – that’s broken out in the Lords over the Bill to authorise a referendum on introducing the Alternative Vote (AV) system for General Elections and reduce the number of seats in the Commons.
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Gary Gibbon
Hitting the ‘nuclear’ option over Lords referendum battle
Gary Gibbon blogs on the battle in the House of Lords debate over the Alternative Vote referendum and the government’s decision to hit ‘the nuclear option’
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Exclusive poll: what difference would AV make?
Exclusive: as Nick Clegg confirms the referendum on alternative vote will be 5 May 2011, research for Channel 4 News suggests AV could have produced a Lib-Lab deal in May’s general election.
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How would parliament look under Proportional Representation?
The UK is the only undisputed democracy in Europe to use the First Past The Post voting system to elect MPs. This could make a big difference to who represents us in parliament. New analysis by the Electoral Reform Society has estimated how this year’s General Election might have played out if Proportional Representation had been used instead.
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Michael Crick
Results in for some of the most powerful jobs in UK politics
The agony is over for many MPs. Elections for the select committee chairs were announced by the Commons speaker today.
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FactCheck: would PR have prevented more austerity?
Voices from the left and right are calling for a move to Proportional Representation. What difference would it really make?
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FactCheck: what would parliament look like under Proportional Representation?
Small parties are likely to feel short-changed after getting millions of votes but very few seats in parliament. Do we need a different system?
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General election 2015: Scottish engagement vs rest of UK
Scottish voters turned out in huge numbers to decide on independence, outdoing general election turnout by 20 per cent – so is the rest of the UK anywhere near as engaged?
