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Comment Murdo Fraser himself is a man elected only because of the present 'top up list system' he suddenly despises JUST when you think you’ve heard it all, Murdo Fraser pops up arguing for full proportional STV to replace the Additional Member System (AMS) used in Holyrood elections. Why? According to the Scottish Tories’ List MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, writing in the Scotsman, it’s because an “SNP-Green pro-independence majority is a distortion of the way people in Scotland voted”. Right. Why now? That’s much simpler to answer. Because Scotland’s biggest pro-Union ...

England’s Green party is on the march. Buoyed with local council seat gains throughout much of the country, there’s talk now – albeit talk almost exclusively from them – of supplanting the Liberal Democrats as the nation’s third most popular party. The polls don’t yet show that to be the case, but the latest numbers do record a slight uptick on the Green party’s support since the May local elections.  But in our electoral system, how far can they go? One of the interesting trends of this year’s local elections was the success of smaller parties breaking through in commu...

Voter ID is not about protecting our democracy. It’s about limiting our democratic freedom. It might stop a dozen complaints of fraud, but could…

Voter ID is not about protecting our democracy. It’s about limiting our democratic freedom. It might stop a dozen complaints of fraud, but could…

ID to vote Voter ID is not about protecting our democracy. It’s about limiting our democratic freedom. It might stop a dozen complaints of fraud, but could disenfranchise or disincentivise millions. Best for Britain has pointed to data which shows, as of 2015, 3.5 million citizens, or 7.5 per cent of the electorate, did not have access to any photo ID. The Government also plans to dismantle the Electoral Commission watchdog and defang Judicial Review, which overturned the Prime Minister’s unlawful prorogation of Parliament in 2019. Mayoral elections in England will be returned to Firs...