While Westminster stumbles from leader to leader and snap election to snap election, it's the proportionally elected parliaments of the UK that have seen stability. The Conservative party will now start to organise a leadership contest, so we've updated our article from 2016 on how they work. We also published a piece back in January how other countries around the world decide who the Prime Minister should be. 

While the government has been imposing First Past the Post on elections we take part in, they don't use it themselves. It begs the question that if the Conservatives really think that First Past the Post is a suitable electoral system for important jobs, why don't they use it to elect their leader?

All the best,
The Electoral Reform Society team

Coverage we've won

ERS Scotland's Willie Sullivan in the Scotsman on how proportional representation would end the scourge of tactical voting, a quote in LeftFootForward on party donors in the Lords and one in the Herald on local government.

ERS Cymru's Jess Blair in the Western Mail on what will happen next now Labour has voted to increase the size of the Senedd.

Our issues in the news

• Politics.co.uk Ministerial resignations—their material costs
• The Guardian Andy Burnham on power, progress and finding his place
• New Statesman The Lib Dems name their price for a deal with Labour
• The Guardian The United Kingdom is broken. It’s time for a new British federation
• New Statesman Would electoral reform end Tory rule forever?

Constituency focus

The failure to come clean about what was known about Christopher Pincher MP has lead to Boris Johnson's resignation. Christopher Pincher has served as Member of Parliament for Tamworth since 2010.

Tamworth

64.3% Turnout
505th Smallest Margin of Victory
599th Smallest Share of the Vote Needed to Win

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