So the Conservatives are offering the Lib Dems a referendum on the Alternative Vote (AV) system. Both Hague and Osborne have now said that they would whip their MPs to support the bill in Parliament on the basis that it is right to give voters the choice in a referendum. Note, they have made the case in moral terms because they think it is the right thing to do.
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Category - general election 2010
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11 May 2010
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11 May 2010
No coalition has yet been formed, but politicians on various sides are already talking of “stability” as if it over-rode all other considerations of democracy and policy.
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11 May 2010
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11 May 2010
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10 May 2010
British Christians have firmly rejected sectarian party politics by offering almost no support at all to the Christian Party, who secured less than two per cent of the vote in each of the 71 constituencies they contested.
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10 May 2010
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10 May 2010
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10 May 2010
Polls at the weekend showed widespread support for a change to a more proportional voting system.
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10 May 2010
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9 May 2010
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