Here's your roundup of the latest and best news and comment from the Electoral Reform Society site. Enjoy!

All the best,
The Electoral Reform Society team

Coverage we've won

Every week we are in the press making the case for the causes you care about. The ERS's Willie Sullivan spoke to PoliticsHome about how donation figures “throw into sharp relief just how crony-laden the Lords’ appointments system has become”. and told Politico that “Hereditary legislators are something that belongs to the 17th century, not a modern 21st-century democracy.”

Dr Jess Garland, Director of Policy and Research for the ERS told Byline Times how “One person being stopped from casting their rightful vote [due to voter ID] is one too many” and told the Independent that the government should "scrap this ill-thought-through and unnecessary scheme before the next national election".

Our issues in the news

• The Guardian - Time running out for UK electoral system to keep up with AI, say regulators
• The Times - Ministers could be fined under new ethics guidelines
• The Guardian - British political giving is increasingly dominated by the rich – it’s a system ripe for abuse
• The Independent - Boris Johnson making £21,000 an hour as second jobs earnings revealed
• The Guardian - Tory MP’s £500,000 stock portfolio raises questions about blind trust system

Safe Seat of the Week

Chris Pincher MP is facing an eight-week suspension after Parliament's standards committee found he groped two men last year. The sanction will need to be endorsed by the whole House of Commons. Here is how his seat of Tamworth voted in 2019.

Tamworth

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

Explore the 2019 General Election in Tamworth →