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  • 8 Nov
    2009
    Tutu praises Boesak for putting people power ahead of party politics

    Archbishop Desmond Tutu has lauded the decision by anti-apartheid icon and former president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, the Rev Allan Boesak to quit party politics and join "God's party".

  • 18 Aug
    2009
    Questioning the political system

    Commenting on the possibility of a new wave of non-party political candidates, including Martin Bell and Terry Waite, emerging, Simon Barrow, co-director of the think-tank Ekklesia, commented:

  • 18 Aug
    2009
    New wave of political 'independents' begins to emerge

    As the main parties try to re-instate 'politics as usual' in the wake of the MPs' expenses scandal and growing dissatisfaction with the current system, a new wave of potential non-party candidates is emerging in the wings.

  • 11 Jun
    2009
    Going way beyond Brown's proposals

    Commenting on PM Gordon Brown's proposals for electoral and political reforms, Jonathan Bartley, co-director of the thinktank Ekklesia, which last week produced a new paper on political reform

  • 23 May
    2009
    Voters Turn on Main Parties, Independent, 23 May 2009
    Independent reports Ekklesia's survey on its font page, about the public's attitudes to independent candidates standing at the next election.
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