Proportional Representation: but What Does It Mean?
Conservative Party leaders weigh adopting proportional representation after Labour's landslide, balancing potential benefits against fears of empowering fringe parties and enabling unstable coalitions.
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Proportional representation: but what does it mean?
A seemingly irrepressible Reform UK party, on the face of it, surging to power; a Labour Party so out of favour with the public that even the red rosettes of Barnsley got the chop; a Conservative Party that is still holed beneath the waterline, though steadying, it seems, under the leadership of Kemi Badenoch – if winning Westminster Council is a good barometer.
Georgia L. Gilholy: Proportional representation is a loser’s game
Georgia L Gilholy is a journalist. Like many causes adopted by the Conservative Party, proportional representation was traditionally a hobbyhorse of the radical Left. The old line was that right-wing governments were far too easily produced by Britain’s first-past-the-post system, and votes should translate more neatly into seats. Now, after Labour’s 2024 landslide and Reform UK’s polling surge, some think it would be wise for the Tories to emb…
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