Why do we need a Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform? Why Labour should support PR Reform of the voting system has been

Individual rights and freedoms lie at the core of liberal beliefs. This includes the right to a good education, to healthcare, a decent, safe environment; the freedom and opportunity to pursue our own hopes, goals, ambitions.

Centre has done a fantastic job collecting articles on Proportional Representation (PR) from a whole host of voices and laying out the clear advantages of ditching our antiquated First-Past-the-Post voting system. These range from the basic questions of representation in a democracy, to the influence on environmental and educational policy.

Whether it’s lies over Partygate or handing out covid contracts to supporters and allies or Boris Johnson’s plans to stuff the Lords with new peers in his final weeks in office, this government are never embarrassed by their own failure to understand the foundations of a good democracy.

Successive governments have denied that the NHS is being privatised, arguing that patients still receive care free at the point of use. An alternative view is that privatisation happens when there’s growing involvement of non-government bodies in the financing or provision of healthcare services.

If you’re far enough into policy discourse to be reading a blog about Proportional Representation (PR), it’s somewhat likely that you already know what the main arguments are on either side of the electoral reform debate.