🏛️ Politics 16h ago · Rachel Cunliffe

Is it finally time for proportional representation?

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Rumours of the death of first past the post (FPTP) tend to be greatly exaggerated.



Proponents of reforming the UK’s winner-takes-all approach to voting – a system not used by any other European country except Belarus – have had their hopes raised and dashed many times over the decades: the Independent Commission on the Voting System established by Tony Blair and chaired by Roy Jenkins, Gordon Brown’s promise of a consultation, the ill-fated Alternative Vote (AV) referendum in 2011.



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