Reform, Plaid Cymru, the SNP and the Greens are all banking on big gains and nationwide repercussionsOn 7 May, three of the UK’s four nations go to the polls in a series of elections with much potential significance, not...
Read MoreStuart Niven suspended after revelations he was struck off as company director, while other candidates have been accused of extremist statements including describing Humza Yousaf as ‘not British’Severin Carrell is...
Read MoreSome Holyrood candidates have been accused of spreading false rumours about asylum hotels, describing Humza Yousaf as ‘not British’, and backing Tommy RobinsonSeverin Carrell is the Guardian’s Scotland...
Read MoreStarmer could improve our unfair electoral system to stop the hard right, but he won’t. All the party has left are threats about ‘splitting the vote’Don’t let the Labour party say one more word about...
Read MoreReform leader refuses to commit to keeping mechanism that guarantees how pensions are increasedFarage is speaking now. He says another “depressing budget hoves into view”. It will be a budget that...
Read MoreGiving 16-year-olds the vote is good, not least to stop the rightward lurch, but real change would mean scrapping first past the post“Gerrymandering!” cry those on the right. But the government’s plan for...
Read MorePrime minister says both US and Europe are important to UK as he holds press conference with Nato secretary general Mark RutteKeir Starmer’s dinner with EU leaders tonight will take place at the Palais d’Egmont, a...
Read MoreRutte urges UK to ramp up arms manufacturing as he says spending on defence ‘will not be enough’Keir Starmer’s dinner with EU leaders tonight will take place at the Palais d’Egmont, a 16th-century palace...
Read MoreMPs vote to give leave to bring in private members’ bill on PR but it will have no practical effectLord Robertson, the former Labour defence secretary and former Nato secretary who is leading the government’s...
Read MoreLib Dem proposal is passed by 137 votes to 135 with some Labour backbench support but is unlikely to become lawUK politics live – latest updatesMPs have voted narrowly in favour of introducing a proportional representation...
Read MoreExclusive: All-party parliamentary group on fair elections argues proportional voting system would help restore trustKeir Starmer is under renewed pressure over electoral reform after dozens of newly elected Labour MPs signed up...
Read MoreCampaigners for electoral reform say outcome has renewed pressure for proportional representationThe push for electoral reform in the UK has received a shot in the arm after the “most disproportionate election in...
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