“Be bold, be brave” says Wrexham’s MP Andrew Ranger. There is a change coming. Recognition that our voting system isn’t fit for purpose and is turning people off politics, is now being debated in Westminster.
Wrexham MP Andrew Ranger is focussed on turning around the disaffection, and rebuilding trust in British politics. First Past the Post does not produce representative parliaments where the public can clearly see that their vote matters. Recent polling from Survation found that two thirds of the public want this addressed before the next election. Turnout figures for general elections hover around 60% and for other types of election like Senedd or local they are even lower.
Mr Ranger is calling for a National Commission to be established which will crucially involve the public and not just politicians. This national conversation would consider what that new system would look like.
As Andrew Ranger said today in Parliament, “This is fundamentally about fairness. Everyone’s vote should be equal and everyone’s vote should count.”
Read my LabourList article here
Labour MPs: ‘We shouldn’t exploit broken electoral system – we need PR’ – LabourList
