Support for proportional representation among Labour members is not going away. Had the leadership backed this call from members as they backed other reforms this week PR may now be Labour Party policy. Next year, let’s make sure the unions and leadership back them as well.
“We can’t build a just society on rotten democratic foundations,” the ERS’ Jess Garland told Labour conference on Monday. The vast majority of local party delegates agreed – with 80% backing a motion for Labour to support a shift to a proportional voting system.
Deputy First Minister John Sweeney lodged a ‘legislation consent memorandum’ in the Scottish Parliament this week which recommends that Holyrood does not give consent to the Elections Bill.
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